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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lobeda (City of Lobeda), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Lobeda E jedes Ding e Ende hat – die Worscht gar ihrer zwee Nur die Entente nimmersatt – die findt kee Ende meh!!! Lobdsche Wurscht ist weltbekannt: Wurscht-Lobde ward die Stadt genannt. Gilt bis 3 Mon. n. Auflr. der Gemeindevertretung 19 Lobeda 21 10 Pf. Druck. Joh. Arndt-Jena. |
| Reverse description | Printed in black on a yellow ground, the reverse centres on a circular vignette containing a silhouette view of the ruins of Lobeda Castle amid bare trees, enclosed by a ring of Gothic Fraktur text. Ornate scrollwork borders frame the medallion on all sides, with four corner panels each bearing the denomination '10 Pfennig' in bold type. To the left a heraldic vignette shows a crowned Madonna with the Lobeda lion shield; to the right stands a fully armoured medieval knight with sword. |
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Lobeda was an independent town in Thuringia in 1921, later absorbed into Jena in 1923 — this note predates that annexation by just two years, making it a product of a municipality that no longer exists as a political entity. The issue belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz notgeld that flooded German local circulation during the coin shortage following World War I. Thousands of German towns issued similar fractional emergency paper, and Lobeda was no exception, turning to the nearby Arndt press in Jena rather than any distant specialist printer.