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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wernigerode (City of Wernigerode) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central colour vignette of figures in traditional regional folk costumes from the Wernigerode area, rendered in a graphic illustration style with two women in elaborate embroidered dress in the foreground and additional figures beneath archways in the background. The denomination '10 Pfg.' appears in large Gothic numerals within decorative panels at both left and right, flanked by circular dot-pattern underprint borders. A caption in Gothic script runs along the lower margin, and the issuer inscription appears in a cartouche across the top. |
| Reverse lettering | Der Stadt Wernigerode a. H. 10 Pfg. Volkstrachten aus der Umgegend von Wernigerode |
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Wernigerode's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the so-called "Serienscheine" phase, when towns increasingly treated small-denomination scrip as a revenue source rather than a genuine monetary stopgap. By 1921, collector demand was well understood by municipal treasurers, and many issues were printed in quantities far exceeding local circulation needs.
Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist currency house, which accounts for the modest production values typical of Thuringian and Saxony-Anhalt Notgeld from this period. The DeNG 1/2#1407.3 reference places this within a numbered series, suggesting at least three distinct types were issued under the Wernigerode authorization.