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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtilm (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set within a decorative brown border and presents a central panoramic vignette of Stadtilm framed by silhouetted conifer trees, with a standing male figure in silhouette to the right leaning on a staff. To the upper left, the municipal coat of arms of Stadtilm — a blue shield bearing a white castle — is printed in color, above which a scroll cartouche carries the town name. Below the central vignette, a ribbon scroll bears the denomination inscription, with the numeral '10' rendered in teal; the printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries three interlocking circular vignettes, each framed by a braided rope border, set against a light teal underprint. The upper central medallion shows a ploughman guiding a horse-drawn plough across an open field; the lower left medallion depicts a tanner working a hide at an outdoor bench; the lower right medallion shows a shoemaker seated at his cobbler's bench working by a window. The denomination '10 PFENNIG' is printed in bold letterpress at the lower centre, flanked by the motto text divided across the upper corners. |
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Stadtilm is a small town in the Ilm valley, and like hundreds of similarly sized Thuringian municipalities in 1921, it issued Kleingeldscheine to plug the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that followed Germany's wartime metal requisitions. The Wiedemannsche Druckerei AG in Saalfeld was a regional workhorse printer that produced notgeld for numerous Thuringian communities during this period — competent work, nothing experimental.
The 1921 wave of municipal paper was technically illegal under Reichsbank regulations but was quietly tolerated until the hyperinflationary collapse later that year made small-change shortages irrelevant for entirely different reasons.