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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Eisenberg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a letterpress illustration of the Eisenberg town hall with its distinctive tower set against billowing clouds, flanked by two dark lateral panels each bearing the denomination '10 PF.' in bold type. The left green panel carries a redemption clause in Gothic script and the right green panel bears the city council's authorization statement with a manuscript signature, while a serial number in red appears at lower right. Decorative borders frame the entire note, with a continuous satirical text legend running along all four margins in rotated script. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 PF. EISENBERG i.Th. Eisenbergs Industrie: Etuis: Porzellan: Piano: Wurst: u. Metallwaren-Fabriken Machinen-Auto-Leder Möbel: Textilwaren: Schamotte: Trockenplatten Graph. Kunstanstalt Gertha Oppenrieder Gera-R. |
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Eisenberg's municipal council issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921, when coin metal was still being rationed and Reichsbank notes of low denomination were simply not reaching smaller towns in sufficient quantity. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own Kleingeldersatz that year — Eisenberg was one of hundreds in Thuringia alone — and the notes were almost never intended for long circulation. Most were redeemed and pulped within months of the stabilization measures that followed.
Gerth & Oppenrieder in Gera were a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is typical of this category of emergency notgeld.