Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Triebes, Reuss |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| 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'. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The central vignette, executed in a bold woodcut style, portrays a craftsman at a workbench planing a board, with a large cabinet or bookcase visible in the background, evoking the local furniture industry. The denomination numeral '10' appears in circular cartouches at all four corners within the same green ivy and floral border that frames the note. The header inscription 'Triebeser Kunst-Möbel-Industrie' runs across the top, and the printer's imprint 'Künstlerpresse, Dresden-A.' is set in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
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.