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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ottmachau (City of Ottmachau), Upper Silesia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Tripartite Notgeld design printed in green and black. The central panel bears the issuer inscription in Gothic blackletter script, the denomination 'Zehn Pfennig', the validity clause text, the date and place of issue, and two manuscript signatures above the designation 'Der Magistrat:'. The left lateral vignette shows a medieval armoured knight standing before a tower gatehouse, with the denomination '10 Pf.' at the foot; the right lateral vignette mirrors this layout with a bishop in full ecclesiastical vestments holding a crozier and book, likewise with '10 Pf.' below. The printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU.' appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue-grey and black, the reverse centres on an octagonal-framed panoramic townscape vignette of Ottmachau showing the town's rooftops, church spires, castle tower, and surrounding hills and trees in fine line engraving. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each corner within ornamental octagonal cartouches, and the full denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is set in Gothic script along the lower margin. Historical annotations in blackletter text flank the central vignette on either side. |
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Ottmachau — now Otmuchów in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian market town that issued emergency paper currency during the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. This Kleingeldschein belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld produced between 1920 and 1922, when local authorities, businesses, and institutions printed their own fractional notes simply because Reichsbank coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted as inflation eroded its value.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau was a prolific regional printer for Silesian Notgeld issues, handling runs for dozens of small towns across the province.