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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Landkreis Cochem |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is executed in dark brown intaglio on a pink-toned paper with a repeating 'KREIS' watermark underprint across the entire field. A central vignette presents two stone gate pillars framing a ruined structure, flanked by a female figure in traditional Moselle regional dress on the left and a male figure on the right, with laurel branch garlands arching across the top. The header reads 'LANDKREIS COCHEM' in bold letterpress, with the denomination numeral '10' at each upper corner, and a text block in Gothic script at the base bearing the issuing authority declaration including the words 'MOSELANER' and 'IM 17. JAHR'. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Landkreis Cochem lies along the Moselle in what was, by 1921, the French-occupied Rhineland — a zone where severe coin shortages made Kleingeldersatz notes like this one a genuine administrative necessity rather than a collector novelty. Local authorities across the occupied territories issued their own Notgeld partly because the Reichsbank's reach into the zone was complicated by occupation controls and the general postwar disruption of metal coinage.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll, the Düren paper mill, supplied both the printing and the watermarked stock — an unusual vertical integration that kept security production entirely in-house.