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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels: the left and right panels each carry a large brown numeral '10' above the red Gothic inscription 'PFENIG'. The central panel presents a polychrome vignette of a robed female saint holding a cross and a shield, standing beneath a Gothic arched canopy with foliage ornament; a six-pointed star and a jug appear to her right. Below the central vignette, a two-line Gothic text declares the note's validity until public recall by the town council, with a serial number at lower left and two manuscript signatures at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is arranged as three horizontal vignettes above a bold inscription panel. The left scene shows a standing stone figure or monument with a hilltop tower in the background; the centre vignette renders the 'Jenaisches Tor', a medieval gate and half-timbered house with figures in the street; the right scene depicts a seated musician with a pennant against a cloudy sky. Below the three scenes, the denomination legend is set in large red Gothic lettering spanning the full width, with the year split across the lower corners in blue. The printer's imprint appears at lower right. |
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Kahla is a small porcelain-manufacturing town on the Saale river in Thuringia, and this note belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — issued in 1921 when postwar inflation made metal coinage economically unviable to produce and hoard simultaneously. Thousands of German towns commissioned similar notes from commercial printers; E. Nisler of Nürnberg handled a substantial volume of this municipal work during the period.
At 10 Pfennig, this is among the lowest denominations seriously affected by the coin shortage — small enough that few bothered to save examples, which affects survival rates across the entire Kleingeld series.