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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sorau, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed panoramic engraving of the town of Sorau, known as 'Die drei Getreuen' (The Three Faithful Ones), showing the characteristic towers and historic architecture of the city skyline. The denomination '10' appears in ornamental corner cartouches, with the date 'Sorau N.-L., 1. März 1921' and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' inscribed vertically along the left margin, accompanied by two facsimile signatures. A serial number is printed in black at the base of the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by the heraldic coat of arms of the city of Sorau, rendered within an oval rope-bordered frame and supported by two rampant animals — a stag to the left and a bear to the right — against an elaborate Art Nouveau scrollwork underprint in blue and ochre. The denomination '10' is repeated in each corner cartouche, and the full denomination in Gothic script appears in the lower panel. |
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Sorau's 1921 Notgeld issues were among the more prolific from Lower Lusatia, produced as the postwar small-coin shortage dragged well into the early 1920s. Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were a significant regional printer for Silesian and Lusatian municipal emergency money — their output was technically competent and recognizable to specialists by certain typographic conventions in the border work.
Sorau itself sits in territory that became Polish Żary after 1945; surviving Notgeld from the city now carries a certain archival weight simply because most local paper records didn't survive the transition.