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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jessen (Magistrat), Bezirk Halle |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green note with black gothic lettering and a decorative border; numeral 10 at lower left and a circular vignette of a city gate at lower right. A manuscript signature of the Magistrat appears below the issuer text. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Jessen Bz. Halle Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig Der Magistrat |
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Jessen is a small town on the Schwarze Elster river in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities it resorted to locally printed Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed retail commerce from 1916 onward. The Magistrat — the municipal administrative body — was the issuing authority rather than a savings institution or commercial firm, which was common for towns of this scale.
Curt Ziehlke of Lieberwerda was a regional printer who handled Notgeld commissions for several nearby communities. Nothing about this issue is technically unusual.