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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Gollnow (City of Gollnow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Issued on a tan ground, the obverse carries two arched vignettes flanking a central denomination panel: the left vignette shows a peasant sowing seed in a field with a rising sun in the background, rendered in fine letterpress line art; the right vignette presents a deer standing amid a rocky, wooded landscape. The central panel bears the denomination '10 Pfennig' in bold blackletter script beneath the heading 'Gutschein über', with the issuing authority 'der Stadt Gollnow / Der Magistrat' and two manuscript facsimile signatures below, dated '15. Febr. 1921' at lower left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 10 Pfennig der Stadt Gollnow Der Magistrat 15. Febr. 1921 Zahlbar innerhalb 3 Monaten nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung |
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Gollnow — now Goleniów in northwestern Poland — issued this note during the peak of Germany's early-1920s Kleingeldersatz crisis, when municipal authorities across the country were forced to print their own fractional currency to compensate for a near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. Grass, Barth & Comp., operating under the W. Friedrich imprint in Breslau, were among the more prolific regional printers serving Pomeranian and Silesian municipalities during this period.
The 10 Pfennig denomination is the most common point of entry for Notgeld collectors precisely because demand for small change was most acute at this level.