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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bischofsheim vor der Rhön |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde 10 Pfennig Bischofsheim v/Rh 10 |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 |
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Bischofsheim vor der Rhön is a small Bavarian market town in the Rhön highlands, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places this squarely in the second wave of German municipal emergency money — after the wartime shortages but during the hyperinflationary spiral that followed. By this point, the Reichsbank had effectively lost control of small-denomination coinage, and thousands of municipalities, towns, and even individual businesses were printing their own scrip to keep local commerce moving.
The 1921 dating is worth noting: this is late-phase notgeld, issued after many collectors had begun hoarding the earlier 1918–1920 series, which drove many municipalities to print specifically for the collector market. Whether Bischofsheim's issue was genuinely circulated or partly a revenue-raising exercise for the Gemeinde is difficult to establish without survival-rate data.