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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 description | Brown and blue letterpress note with a decorative border incorporating ornamental corner devices. At centre, a circular vignette reproduces the medieval town seal of Brehna, showing an armoured knight on horseback holding a banner and sceptre, surrounded by the Latin legend SIGILLVM OTTONIS DEI GRACIA DOMINI DE BREHNA. The denomination '10 Pf' appears in large Gothic numerals at left and right, with the place name BREHNA, the date A.D. 1921 JULI, and the authority inscription D.MAGIST. flanking the seal. A manuscript signature appears to the right of the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pf. 3. Und nun berichtet uns die Mär- |
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Brehna was a small Prussian town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in 1921, it resorted to printing its own Kleingeldersatz when the chronic small-coin shortage — itself a product of wartime metal requisitioning and postwar inflationary pressure — made everyday commerce genuinely difficult. These local Notgeld issues were authorized under emergency provisions but varied enormously in quality and quantity; the involvement of H. Schiebel, a Bitterfeld printer, kept this series within conventional commercial production rather than the hand-stamped or typewritten improvisation seen in smaller issuances.
The DeNG reference numbers suggest at least three distinct variants within this denomination.