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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Stützerbach (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Max Bechstein |
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| Obverse lettering | Göthezimmer in Stützerbach. MB (signature: Max Bechstein) NOTGELD, Stützerbach W./A. Werth zehn Pfennig. Industrie und Luftkurort. |
| Reverse description | Central arched vignette in blue tones presenting a landscape view of the Großer Herrmannstein rock formation northeast of Stützerbach, surrounded by dense conifers; the caption "Gr. Herrmannstein" appears within the vignette. The four corners each bear the numeral "10 d." in decorative cartouches, with conifer branch ornaments flanking the central arch on either side. A four-line Goethe verse occupies the lower text panel, and the validity clause with the Mayor's manuscript signature and place-date inscription appear across the upper panel. |
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Stützerbach is a small glassmaking village in the Thuringian Forest, and its 1921 Notgeld issues lean heavily into that local industrial identity. Max Bechstein — a regional designer associated with several Thuringian municipal Notgeld commissions — produced artwork for this series that was considerably more accomplished than the average Kleingeldschein of the period.
The print date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog or documentation error; this note belongs to the 1921 Notgeld wave that followed the postwar small-change shortage, not the final day of the Third Reich.