Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz |
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| Printer | Krey und Sommerlad, Niedersedlitz, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-red Notgeld coupon printed in black Fraktur (Gothic) letterpress on plain paper, with stylised floral sprays flanking the central text field as marginal decorative underprint elements. The central legend reads 'Gutschein über zehn Pfennige' in bold blackletter, accompanied below by a validity clause naming the Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz district and the redemption deadline of 31 December 1919. The issuing authority 'Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz' appears in the lower register, beneath a facsimile manuscript signature of the Amtshauptmann. |
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| Reverse description | Bicolour reverse printed in green and black, with a guilloche-patterned border enclosing a fine line-engraved vignette of Schloss Rochlitz as seen from the Zwickauer Mulde riverbank, the castle's Romanesque twin-towered church and adjacent structures reflected in the foreground water. The denomination numeral '10' is placed in the upper left corner within the vignette frame, and the caption 'Schloß Rochlitz i. Sa.' appears in script lettering at the upper right. The printer's imprint 'KREY & SOMMERLAD ADR. NIEDERSEDLITZ' is inscribed along the lower margin. |
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Rochlitz was a small administrative district in Saxony, and like hundreds of similar Amtshauptmannschaften across Germany, it resorted to locally printed Kleingeldersatz during the severe coin shortages of the First World War and its aftermath. Krey und Sommerlad in Niedersedlitz — a printing firm near Dresden — supplied a significant volume of such Notgeld to Saxon municipalities, making their output identifiable but far from rare as a printer attribution.
The extreme miniature format was deliberate: these were meant to approximate the physical feel of coins in a pocket or till, not to circulate as conventional banknotes.