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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weida (City of Weida, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Red and black letterpress note with large bold '10' numerals at upper left and right, each accompanied by 'Pfennig' in Gothic script. A central diamond-shaped vignette on a teal ground depicts a folk figure of a woman in a yellow dress with arms outstretched. Flanking text panels carry a two-part rhyming verse in Gothic script, with the issuing legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Weida' in large Gothic lettering along the lower edge. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig Wer mag das alte Kuchenmaß de suchen / der Mäuler wurden mehr und weniger der Kuchen Notgeld der Stadt Weida |
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Weida is a small market town in the Greiz district, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money printed across Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation during the inflationary spiral following the war. Johannes Arndt was a Jena printing house with a regional clientele — practical work, not prestige commissions.
The reference suffix ".2-2/8" suggests this is one of a seriated multi-note set, a common notgeld marketing strategy by 1921, when many towns issued collectible series specifically to generate revenue from hoarders rather than from actual commerce.