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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ilsenburg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is executed in a two-colour letterpress design of black and orange, with the town name ILSENBURG rendered in large Gothic (Fraktur) blackletter script across the upper field, flanked by elaborate foliate scroll ornaments at the left and right margins. Centrally, the word GUTSCHEIN appears in bold Fraktur below the legend IM HARZ, with a small heart motif between them, and an orange circular coin-like vignette bearing the numeral 10 placed in the lower centre. The bottom register carries the issue date ILSENBURG, 1. JUNI 1921, the invalidation notice DIESER SCHEIN WIRD AM 1. JANUAR 1923 UNGÜLTIG, the horizontal legends SEID EINIG and EINIG EINIG, and a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ilsenburg |
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Ilsenburg lies at the northern foot of the Harz Mountains, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the so-called Serienscheine period, when small towns increasingly treated low-denomination paper scrip as a vehicle for local promotion and collector revenue rather than genuine monetary necessity. Appelhans Verlag in Braunschweig was a prolific printer of such issues, supplying dozens of Harz-region municipalities during this period.
The 10 Pfennig denomination was the smallest practical unit issued for this type of scrip, and most examples were bought by collectors and never spent.