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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Eckartsberga, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Cream-toned paper with a red border and circular denomination cartouches reading '10' at each corner. A detailed letterpress vignette occupies the upper field, showing Eckartsburg castle rising above a dense conifer forest against a clouded sky, captioned 'Eckartsburg bei Eckartsberga, Thür.' A bold Fraktur banner at the foot of the note carries the motto 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott'. |
| Reverse lettering | Eckartsburg bei Eckartsberga, Thür. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott |
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Eckartsberga is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it printed its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address a severe shortage of small-denomination coins. The Reichsbank had effectively lost control of small change by this point, leaving local authorities, businesses, and even private associations to fill the gap with their own scrip.
Municipal issues from towns this size rarely circulated beyond their immediate district. Many were collected rather than spent, which has complicated any honest assessment of true rarity versus artificially preserved survival rates.