Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Landesvorstand des Birkenfelder Landes |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a fine line-engraving of a rural Idar valley (Idartai) scene — a mill, village, and hilltop tower reflected in a calm river — rendered in brown-olive tones and signed 'RUD. WILD. IDAR'. The main panel carries the issuer inscription 'NOTGELD DES BIRKENFELDER LANDES' in bold letterpress, with flanking ornamental side panels bearing the denomination numeral '10' within decorated cartouches above and below 'PFENNIG'. A circular official stamp of the Landesvorstand is applied at centre-left, with the place and date line 'BIRKENFELD den 1. FEBRUAR 1921.' and a serial number in black at foot. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DES BIRKENFELDER LANDES DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT DREI MONATE NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTLICHER ANKÜNDIGUNG BIRKENFELD den 1. FEBRUAR 1921. DER VORSITZENDE DES LANDESVORSTANDES No 10 PFENNIG ACHATSCHLEISE im IDARTAI RUD. WILD. IDAR |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Birkenfeld was an odd political remnant — a Prussian exclave embedded within the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, detached from the main Prussian territory by a substantial geographic gap. After 1918 it became the Free State of Birkenfeld under Oldenburg administration, a peculiar jurisdictional status that nevertheless gave the Landesvorstand authority to issue emergency Kleingeld during the acute coin shortages of the early 1920s.
The Rud. Wild and Wilh. Wild credits almost certainly indicate a local printing firm rather than a major specialist house — consistent with the decentralized, often improvised nature of German Notgeld production at this level.