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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ditfurt, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette set within a decorative border of carved wooden pillar motifs, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated at upper left and right flanking a Gothic-script cartouche reading 'Ditfurt' at the top. The central scene is a detailed polychrome illustration of the historic Rathaus und Spelhus of 1330, rendered as a half-timbered thatched structure with figures, a horse-drawn cart, and animals in the foreground. Medieval carved figure reliefs occupy the lateral pillar panels on both sides of the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | Ditfurt 10 Rathaus und Spelhus vom Jahre 1330 |
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Ditfurt is a small village in the Harz foothills, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is exactly what you'd expect from a minor municipality scrambling to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar inflation years. The Reichsbank simply could not keep low-denomination coins in circulation fast enough, and thousands of towns — including ones with populations well under a thousand — stepped into the gap with locally printed emergency paper.
Oscar Grupe in nearby Quedlinburg was a regional workhorse printer for exactly this kind of run, turning out Notgeld for numerous Harz-area communities during the same period.