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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Sooden an der Werra, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Bad Sooden a.d. Werra 10 Zehn Pfennig 1559 Die Gemeindekasse Der Bürgermeister DRUCK: A SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG/ALLGÄU. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a full-colour vignette of a historic street scene in Bad Sooden, showing timber-framed half-timbered houses and a church tower under a clouded sky, framed within a rectangular border with olive-green arabesque side panels. To the lower left appears the town arms shield (red field with crossed keys and '1559'), while to the lower right a second heraldic shield displays a white lion rampant on a blue field. Above the vignette a Latin motto runs across a pale panel in upright Roman lettering. |
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Bad Sooden an der Werra is a small salt-spa town in Hesse, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute — as coin shortages following the First World War made everyday commerce genuinely difficult. The printer, A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, was a regional Swabian firm that fulfilled notgeld contracts for numerous municipalities across southern and western Germany during this period, working at volume rather than prestige.
Lindenberg is roughly 600 kilometers from Bad Sooden — a reminder that local notgeld was rarely produced locally.