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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Kösen (City of Bad Kösen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 56 × 36 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a finely rendered vignette of the Kurmittelhaus (spa treatment house) of Bad Kösen, a large neoclassical building set among bare-branched trees, printed in dark tones on an unprinted ground. A decorative striped band in red and yellow runs along the upper edge. At the bottom, the denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is set in bold Gothic lettering on an orange panel flanked by the numerals '10' in blue-green on either side, with 'BAD KÖSEN' inscribed below in Roman capitals. |
| Reverse lettering | Kurmittelhaus. 10 Zehn Pfennig 10 BAD KÖSEN |
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Bad Kösen's 10 Pfennig Notgeld from 1921 belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the inflationary tide had already eroded small coinage from everyday use, forcing even modest spa towns to print their own. Bad Kösen, known primarily for its saline springs and the nearby Schulpforta monastery school, was hardly an industrial center, which makes its participation in the Notgeld phenomenon unremarkable in itself.
What keeps collectors interested in small-town Kleingeldscheine is precisely their obscurity — print runs were limited, distribution was hyper-local, and survival rates vary wildly by municipality.