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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Zörbig |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with a dashed rectangular border enclosing a detailed line-engraved vignette of the Dorotheenhof, identified as the first Prussian tobacco factory, set within a rural landscape with outbuildings, bare trees, and cultivated fields in the foreground. Above the vignette, a four-line verse in Gothic Kurrent script references the historic tobacco cultivation and the prosperity it brought to local landowners. The series number 'II.' appears in the upper right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Dorotheenhof - erste preuß. Tabakfabrik. Manch' Grundbesitzer hat früher schlau Viel Geld verdient mit Tabakbau. In Garten und Feld pflanzte Tabak an Gar mancher - und ward ein reicher Mann! II. |
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Zörbig is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the period after the Reichsbank's coin shortages had already forced thousands of towns into self-financing their own small change. H. Schiebel of Bitterfeld was a local commercial printer with no particular specialization in currency work, which places this firmly in the category of purely functional issues rather than the collectible "Serienscheine" that larger municipalities commissioned as deliberate revenue streams.
The 10 Pfennig denomination suggests real transactional use — too small to be a commemorative vanity piece.