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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mellenbach (Municipality of Mellenbach), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Parcus, Munich, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note printed in teal and black on cream paper, with a fine diamond-pattern guilloche underprint across the central field. The denomination '10 Pf.' appears in bold blackletter type at upper left and upper right, flanking a serial number at top centre above the word 'Notgeld'. The issuer's name 'Gemeinde Mellenbach im Schwarzatal - Thür. Wald' is set in large blackletter script across the middle. The lower section is divided into three panels: at left, a validity clause in roman type; at centre, the oval municipal seal of Mellenbach bearing two birds within a wreath; and at right, the issue date 'den 1. Juli 1921' above the authority line 'Der Gemeindevorstand' with a manuscript signature. The printer's imprint 'GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN.' appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Schwarzatal, du meine Heimat, wie bist du so schön. Mellenbach i. Thür. 10 |
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Mellenbach is a small village in the Schwarza valley of Thuringia, and this 10 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldnot — the small-change famine — that gripped Germany in 1921 as postwar inflation drove coins out of circulation faster than the Reichsbank could replace them. Thousands of municipalities, cooperatives, and private firms issued their own emergency paper fractions, and Gebrüder Parcus in Munich became one of the more prolific printers of this material, supplying Notgeld to communities across southern and central Germany.
Mellenbach's series is among the more obscure Thuringian village issues, with low original print runs typical of communities this size.