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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Salzungen (Bad Salzungen), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress Notgeld note with a central vignette of a child in traditional dress standing atop an arch, holding a small figure, flanked by two street views of Bad Salzungen rendered in red, cream, and black. Diagonal red-and-cream barber-pole columns frame the composition on either side, while the denomination '10 PF.' appears in red within bordered cartouches at upper left and upper right. At lower left the validity clause reads 'Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf,' and at lower right the date and magistrate's facsimile signature are printed. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT 10 PF. BAD SALZUNGEN Gültig bis 1 Monat · nach Aufruf · Salzungen, den 10. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat: Sitte |
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Bad Salzungen is a small spa town in Thuringia with saltworks dating back centuries — the "Salz" in its name is no accident. This 1921 Notgeld piece was issued by the town magistrate during the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany after the First World War, when even the smallest denominations vanished from circulation as hoarding and metal scarcity made Reichsmünzen functionally unavailable for everyday transactions.
Reineck & Klein of Weimar printed enormous quantities of municipal Notgeld across Thuringia during this period. The single signature, "Sitte," likely belongs to a municipal official rather than a bank director — a detail that underscores how far monetary responsibility had devolved from central institutions to local bureaucrats by 1921.