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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Gräfenthal (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 49 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Pfg. 10 Pfg. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a coloured landscape vignette showing a panoramic view of Gräfenthal nestled in the Thuringian hills, with the town's church tower and surrounding wooded slopes rendered in a poster-art style typical of Notgeld of the period. A yellow-ochre border band at the top bears the inscription "Notgeld 1921" flanked by decorative dashes, while a matching lower band carries the issuing authority's name. The overall composition is enclosed within a simple ruled border. |
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Gräfenthal is a small town in the Thuringian slate mining district, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as coin shortages became acute in the postwar inflation years. Hundreds of towns issued their own small-denomination paper, and most were printed in bulk by regional jobbing printers with no particular care for longevity — which is why so many of these tiny notes survive in fragile condition despite never having seen hard use.
The format here is notably small even within the notgeld series, where compact dimensions were common for Pfennig values.