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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Triptis (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Pink and black letterpress vignette divided by a dark header band bearing '10 PFENNIG' in bold white capitals. The central composition contrasts industrial and agricultural labour: at left a male factory worker carrying tools stands beside a mill or factory complex with a large wheel, while at right a male farmhand rakes harvested grain; three circular medallions in the centre display the municipal arms and craft emblems flanked by decorative scrollwork. The printer's imprint 'C. Herrmann, Meerane' appears in small type at the lower right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 PFENNIG |
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Triptis is a small industrial town in the Saale-Orla district, and this 1921 Kleingeldschein is a product of the acute coin shortage that plagued Germany in the inflationary spiral following World War I. Municipal authorities across Thuringia — many of them tiny communities with no banking infrastructure to speak of — commissioned local printers to produce emergency fractional notes because actual small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted.
C. Herrmann of Meerane handled both design and printing, a common arrangement for minor Notgeld runs where economy dictated a single contractor do everything. Meerane was a textile town with a modest commercial printing trade, not a specialist security printer.