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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Brehna (City of Brehna) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT BREHNA 10 Pf BREHNA A.D. 1921 JULI D. MAGIST. 10 PFENNIG SIGILLVM OTTONIS DEI GRATIA COMITIS DE BREHNA STADTSPARKASSE BREHNA BIS 1 MON. NACH OFFENLICHER AUFFRVF EINLOSBAR BEI DER |
| Reverse description | Orange, purple, and green letterpress design on white paper, with a central dark purple vignette of a duck resting on a nest of green reeds or wheat stalks, set against lateral orange panels with stylised grain-ear underprint motifs. A row of eight golden eggs in oval form runs across the top border between the denomination indicators '10 P.' at each corner in green Gothic numerals. A lower orange panel carries the legend '7. Wer tät die goldnen Eier finden.' in green Gothic script, referencing a local fable or proverb. The printer's imprint 'H. Schiebel 21.' appears in the lower right corner of the central vignette. |
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Brehna is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar period. The 1921 municipal series was a practical response to the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage, which had been hoarded or melted down well before hyperinflation peaked in 1923. H. Schiebel of nearby Bitterfeld was a regional printer serving multiple small issuers in the area, which accounts for the workmanlike production quality typical of this class of note.
The DeNG reference suffix range (.1-7) indicates this denomination exists in at least seven distinct varieties within the series — likely color or text variants.