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10 Pfennig

Issuer Stadtgemeinde Triebes, Reuss
Year 1920
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Obverse description Pink guilloche underprint covers the field, framed by an ornate green ivy and floral border with small town arms vignettes in the upper corners. The text 'GUTSCHEIN der Stadtgemeinde Triebes/Reuss. über' appears in the upper portion in Gothic blackletter, above the large denomination inscription 'Zehn Pfennig' in bold blackletter script. The lower section bears the numeral '10' in circular cartouches at each corner, the validity clause 'Nur gültig im Stadtbezirk Triebes', the date 'Triebes 1.3.1920', and a facsimile signature with the title 'Bürgermeister'.
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Reverse lettering Triebeser Kunst-Möbel-Industrie 10 Künstlerpresse, Dresden-A.
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Triebes was a small textile-manufacturing town in the Reuss principality — by 1920 absorbed into Thuringia — and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities it issued Kleingeldscheine when the postwar coin shortage left ordinary commerce unable to make change. The Künstlerpresse in Dresden was not a banknote printer in any conventional sense but a fine-arts press, which occasionally shows in the production quality of Reuss notgeld from this period.

Reuss notgeld as a collecting category is unusually dense given the territory's small population, a consequence of both the principality's fragmented administrative history and the enthusiasm of local issuing bodies in 1920.

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