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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Königsee i. Thür. (City of Königsee, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a coloured vignette within a cartouche bordered in red and grey shows an armoured knight bearing a sword and shield with a lion device — the municipal arms of Königsee. To the right, the denomination '10 Pfennig' is set in large Gothic letterpress type beneath the issuing authority legend in an ornate script. A serial number appears at lower left, with two facsimile signatures — those of the Stadtrat and the Bürgermeister — at lower right. The issue date 'Königsee i. Thür., am 1. Januar 1921' is printed in the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in polychrome letterpress and presents a whimsical folk-art scene: a gnome-like figure with an exaggerated beard, wearing a wreath of flowers and carrying a bundle of herbs and a walking staff, strides across a wooded landscape. To the right, a decorative oval cartouche contains a four-line German verse in Gothic script, flanked by conifer trees and a small labelled apothecary jar. The denomination '10 Pfg.' appears on a banner scroll at the top, and the printer's imprint 'Aug. Heinecke, Rudolstadt' is printed at lower left. |
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Königsee is a small town in the Schwarza valley — population a few thousand even at its peak — and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places it squarely in the second wave of German municipal emergency currency, by which point the inflationary pressure on small-denomination coinage had become acute enough that even minor townships were printing their own stop-gap paper. Aug. Heinecke in Rudolstadt was the logical choice: a regional printer close enough to keep costs down, used by several Thuringian municipalities during this period.
The DeNG reference suffix "1a-1/4" indicates this is one of four variants in the series — likely differentiated by color, serial numbering, or minor typographic changes rather than denomination.