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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Braunlage (Municipality of Braunlage) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Beige ground within a dark ruled border. A green ribbon banner at the top carries the denomination legend in Gothic script. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Braunlage — a red shield charged with a rearing white horse beneath a crenellated red tower — is flanked on either side by a large red numeral 10. Above the shield the issuer name appears in Gothic lettering and below it the municipality name. A two-line redemption clause in Gothic script runs across the lower portion of the note, beneath which the serial number and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appear. A second green ribbon banner at the foot bears the inscription 'Braunlage im Harz'. The printer's imprint 'Louis Koch Halberstadt' is printed vertically along the right margin in red. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels, all set against a warm beige ground within a dark ruled border. The flanking panels each carry a detailed line-art vignette of tall conifer trees with gnarled roots, rendered in brown tones. The central panel, framed by a fine dotted rule, presents a colour landscape vignette of the Harz mountain scenery around Braunlage, with forested slopes, a meandering path, and a rounded summit visible in the background; the numeral 10 in red appears above this central vignette. A small cartouche at the base of the central panel bears the place name in Gothic script. |
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Braunlage is a small resort town in the Harz mountains, and its 1921 notgeld issues reflect the hyperinflationary pressures that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency when the Reichsbank could no longer keep low-denomination coins in circulation. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled notgeld contracts for several smaller Harz-area communities during this period — competent work, nothing elaborate.
The DeNG reference suffix indicating three variants (1-1/3) suggests the municipality issued this denomination in at least three distinct printings or text configurations, a detail worth verifying against paper stock or serial differences in hand.