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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hachenburg (City of Hachenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 82 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red and yellow decorative border with ornamental corner motifs frames a central white oval vignette. Within the oval, the issuer inscription 'NOTGELD DER STADT HACHENBURG' appears at the top in bold letterpress, with the denomination '10 Pfennig 10' rendered in large gothic script below. A serial number appears vertically along the left margin, and two facsimile signatures appear beneath the text 'Der Magistrat:', with the date 'Hachenburg, am 1. Juni 1921' and the printer's imprint 'G. Hunckel, Bremen' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | A bold red rectangular field with black-and-white hatched corner decorations frames a central yellow oval vignette containing a detailed black panoramic townscape view of Hachenburg in the Westerwald region, with the town's church spires and hilltop castle clearly rendered. The inscription 'Hachenburg Westerwald' curves along the top of the oval in gothic script. Small denomination indicators 'Pf.' appear at the margins. |
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Hachenburg is a small market town in the Westerwald, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it was forced into issuing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reich's official coinage had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted down against rampant inflation. G. Hunckel of Bremen handled a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld contracts during this period, supplying small towns across northwestern Germany that lacked any local printing capacity.
The 82 × 65 mm format is notably wider relative to its height than most Kleingeldscheine of this denomination, suggesting a deliberate local specification rather than a stock sheet size from Hunckel's press.