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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schierke, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark teal-green on plain paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of a Harz mountain landscape with a silhouette portrait of Goethe set within a laurel wreath at centre, captioned 'Goethe' below. To the right, two hikers in silhouette are visible against the wooded hillside. A scroll-banner at the top bears the title 'Goethe's Faust I. Teil' flanked by a two-part quotation from the text in Gothic script. The denomination 'Zehn Pfg.' appears in bold white letterpress across the lower central field, above a text panel bearing the issuing authority, date, serial number in red, and the Gemeindevorsteher's signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same teal-green tone and centres on a detailed landscape vignette of the Feuersteinklippen, the granite rock formations near Schierke in the Harz, framed within an arched cartouche with dotted inner border. Coniferous trees flank the rocky outcrop on both sides. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold type at both the upper left and upper right corners outside the cartouche. A ribbon banner at the base of the vignette carries the place name 'Schierke i. Harz' in Gothic lettering, with the caption 'Feuersteinklippen' below. |
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Schierke is a small resort town in the Harz mountains, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued notgeld not primarily out of necessity but as a deliberate revenue source. Collectors across Germany were actively buying and hoarding attractive local notgeld issues, and many towns — Schierke included — exploited that market by commissioning appealing regional designs from local printers. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional press serving this exact demand across the surrounding area.
The speculative notgeld boom was largely over by late 1922, when hyperinflation made small-denomination paper issues pointless.