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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Frose (Municipality of Frose) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | This Notgeld note is designed as a composite sheet of two 5-Pfennig halves, separated by a horizontal perforation line across the centre bearing the instruction '!! Hier trennen!' (Tear here). The upper half carries the place name 'Frose i/Anh.' in a ruled cartouche at top, flanked by green numeral '5' corner boxes, with a central green oval guilloche vignette enclosing the denomination figure '5' and Pfennig symbol, set between two flanking twisted-column ornaments in black and red-and-green heraldic colours. The lower half contains an oval text panel with a six-line German rhyming verse lamenting the disappearance of the old nickel five-Pfennig coin, below a scrollwork ornamental underprint, with the validity clause 'Gültig bis vier Wochen nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. Der Gemeindevorstand: Henke.' in a ruled cartouche at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Frose i/Anh. Getrennt gültig als 5 ℳ !! Hier trennen! Was früher 'Fünf' war, sind heut 'Fünfen'. Was nützt darüber Streit und Schimpfen! Den Wucher und den Schieber faßt, und den der in der Fülle praßt! Sind diese nicht erst ganz beiseite, geht's immer näher ran zur Pleite! Gültig bis vier Wochen nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. Der Gemeindevorstand: Henke Louis Koch, Halberstadt. |
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Frose is a village in the Anhalt region, and like hundreds of small German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute — in response to the chronic coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank's metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, leaving local commerce nearly paralyzed at the pfennig level. Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer who took on dozens of these municipal Notgeld commissions, and the quality varies considerably across his output.
Frose's series is among the more obscure Anhalt issues, with little documented circulation history and no known overprint variants.