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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Alzey (City of Alzey) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A large central oval vignette with a fine guilloche underprint carries the redemption text and date in Gothic blackletter script, with the bold curved inscription STADT · ALZEY arcing along the upper border of the oval and PFENNIG running along the lower border in matching blackletter type. Decorative foliate corner ornaments and six-pointed star devices flank the oval on either side. The printer's imprint KRANZBÜHLER, WORMS. appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT · ALZEY Einlösbar nach Bekanntgabe bei der Stadtkasse Alzey Alzey, den 1. Februar 1921 Der Bürgermeister: J. V. PFENNIG KRANZBÜHLER, WORMS. |
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Alzey is a small town in Rhineland-Palatinate, and this 1921 Notgeld piece is one of hundreds of municipal small-denomination notes issued across Germany during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. Rampant hoarding of metal currency — even the base-metal coins — drove towns and cities to commission their own emergency paper fractionals. Kranzbühler in Worms was a regional printer that handled a significant volume of Rhineland Notgeld work during this period.
The DeNG reference suffix ".2" typically distinguishes a variant within the A13 type — likely a difference in serial numbering, paper stock, or a minor typographic revision rather than a wholly distinct issue.