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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Friedeberg in der Neumark |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 100 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Notgeld note carries the denomination '10 Pfennig' in bold letterpress within a framed typographic layout, with the issuing authority inscription identifying the Stadt Friedeberg in der Neumark. Ornamental border elements frame the central text field, typical of the printed emergency currency produced for German municipalities during the post-World War I inflationary period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a plain or lightly ornamented typographic composition consistent with the utilitarian emergency currency (Notgeld) style of the early 1920s, carrying validity conditions or supplementary text relating to the note's legal tender status within the issuing municipality. |
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Friedeberg in der Neumark — now Strzelce Krajeńskie in western Poland — was one of hundreds of small German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the postwar coinage famine of 1919–1921. The chronic shortage of metal small change drove town administrations across Germany to commission local or regional printers for Kleingeldersatz notes, and Selmar Bayer's Berlin operation handled a significant share of this municipal work.
Nothing technically exceptional distinguishes this issue, but its geographic fate does. The town passed to Poland after 1945 under the Potsdam territorial adjustments, and most surviving civic records — including print run documentation — were lost or scattered in that transition.