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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Arolsen (City of Arolsen, Waldeck-Pyrmont) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange-red and black with a richly decorated border incorporating scrolling foliate arabesques and the denomination numeral '10' repeated in each corner. The central vignette presents a multicolour landscape scene viewed through a frame of tall dark conifers, revealing a sunlit clearing with a small red-roofed cottage, rolling meadows and distant foliage rendered in a painterly Art Nouveau style. The place name 'Arolsen.' is inscribed in a bold serif typeface along the lower edge of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Arolsen. |
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Arolsen was the tiny residential capital of the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a state so small it had already entered a customs and administrative union with Prussia before this note was printed. The 1921 Kleingeldscheine wave hit municipal treasuries across Germany as coin shortages persisted well into the postwar years, and the Gemeindekasse — the municipal cashier's office — issued these low-denomination notes simply to make change. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a minor regional printer who handled a number of these small-town emergency issues during the same period.