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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Thale am Harz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 83 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | A German Notgeld issue of the City of Thale am Harz, with the denomination '10 Pfennig' rendered in bold letterpress type against a plain paper ground. The face carries the issuing authority's name and the year of issue, framed within a simple typographic border typical of small-denomination emergency currency of the early Weimar period. Textual elements are arranged in a centered, austere layout consistent with municipal wartime austerity printing practices. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries supplementary text denoting the validity conditions and redemption terms as required by Weimar-era Notgeld regulations, printed in a straightforward letterpress composition. A simple decorative border frames the central text block, with the face value restated alongside the issuing municipality's guarantee clause. The overall design reflects the utilitarian character of small-denomination Kleingeldscheine produced by German municipal authorities during the inflationary period of the early 1920s. |
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Thale am Harz issued this 10 Pfennig Notgeld note in 1921 as part of the broader municipal emergency currency wave that swept Germany following the economic dislocation of the First World War and the collapse of adequate Reichsbank coin supply. Thale, a small industrial town at the foot of the Harz mountains with a significant aluminum processing history, was typical of hundreds of municipalities forced to paper over the coinage shortage with locally printed scrip.
By 1921 the Notgeld phenomenon had shifted from genuine necessity toward collector-driven production — many towns were printing attractive series primarily for philatelic sale. Whether Thale's issue falls into the utilitarian or speculative category depends on the specific print run data, which remains difficult to pin down for minor municipal issuers of this period.