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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Gebesee |
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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 Gebesee 10 Pfennig Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines abläuft, wird öffentlich angezeigt. z. Gebesee, den 14. Okt. 21. der Magistrat: |
| Reverse description | Yellow and black reverse printed in a detailed woodcut-style landscape composition. The left panel presents a panoramic bird's-eye vignette of the Gebesee townscape with the Gera and Unstrut rivers labelled by ribbon banners, alongside the Tretenburg fortress and Weinberg vineyard; the river confluence is identified by the label 'Gera'. A separate right panel contains a vignette of the Katharinenkirche above a framed Gothic-script motto. The artist's imprint 'A. Honf Erfurt' appears at the lower margin. |
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Gebesee is a small town in Thuringia, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 — municipalities printing their own small-denomination emergency currency because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough low-value coin. Kirchner's Erfurt shop handled a substantial volume of Thuringian Notgeld commissions during this period, printing for dozens of small issuers across the region.
The Magistrat series from Gebesee attracts modest collector interest primarily as a complete set rather than individually. This denomination is the most commonly surviving piece from the issue.