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10 Pfennig

Issuer Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz
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Size 46 × 29 mm
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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.
Obverse lettering Gutschein über
zehn Pfennige
Gültig im bezirk der Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz bis zum 31. Dezember 1919
Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz
Amtshauptmann
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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.

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