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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ballenstedt, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows the Städtisches Badehaus (municipal bathhouse) of Ballenstedt rendered in a bold woodcut-style illustration with a red tiled roof, stone masonry walls, turrets, and surrounding trees. The denomination '10 Pf' appears in large numerals at the upper left, with the caption 'STÄDT. BADEHAUS' inscribed at lower right of the vignette. A decorative banner at the base carries the town name 'BALLENSTEDT AM HARZ' flanked by ornamental devices, with the printer's imprint 'LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT' below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the municipal arms of Ballenstedt centrally placed, with the denomination value above and the city name below. Flanking the central design to the left and right is one of six unique phrases used across the 10 Pfennig series, serving as a distinguishing feature among the individual notes within the set. |
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Ballenstedt is a small town in the Harz foothills of Anhalt, and this note is a product of the 1921 Kleingeldschein wave — the second major surge of German municipal emergency currency, driven by a chronic shortage of low-denomination coins during the inflationary spiral that preceded the hyperinflationary collapse of 1922–23. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly what the Kleingeldschein market demanded: fast, cheap, local.
The DeNG reference suffix ".3-5/24" indicates this belongs to a dated sub-series, a common distinguishing factor among Ballenstedt issues where multiple printings share the same face design.