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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Saalfeld an der Saale |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Saaltor Saalfeld a/S. Gutschein über Zehn 10 Pfennig Saalfeld a.Saale, den 1. April 1921. Der Magistrat Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach ortsüblichem Aufruf zur Einlösung. |
| Reverse description | The upper portion of the reverse carries a panoramic letterpress vignette captioned 'Kulm' at upper left, showing a stone bridge spanning the Saale river with the town of Saalfeld and the Kulm hill in the background. Below the vignette, a decorative scroll cartouche bears the city arms at lower left alongside a three-line verse in Fraktur dialect text. A vertical panel at the right edge contains the serial number printed vertically and the denomination numeral '10' above the abbreviation 'Pf' in large red display type. The printer's imprint 'Wiedemannsche Druckerei A.-G. Saalfeld i. Thür.' appears at the foot of the note in small letterpress type. |
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Saalfeld's 1921 Notgeld issue came at the peak of Germany's municipal small-change crisis, when coin shortages drove hundreds of towns to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Magistrat commissioned the Wiedemannsche Druckerei — a local firm, not one of the major Leipzig or Berlin houses typically used for larger Notgeld runs — which gives this note a distinctly regional character in its typography and layout.
Thuringian municipal Notgeld from this period was often recalled and destroyed within months of issue, making intact survivors more common in philatelic collections than in the wild.