Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned notgeld printed in dark brown ink on a guilloche underprint with circular rosette ornaments at the corners. The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold at each corner, with the heading 'Gutschein über' in Gothic blackletter script at the top, followed by the value 'Zehn Pfennige' in large decorative lettering at centre. Below, a two-line validity clause in Gothic script states the note is valid only within the district of the Royal Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde until 31 December 1918, followed by the issuing authority's full name and a manuscript signature above the title 'Amtshauptmann'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zehn Pfennige Gültig nur im Bezirk der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde und nur bis zum 31 Dezember 1918. Der Bezirksverband der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde Amtshauptmann |
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Dippoldiswalde is a small administrative district in Saxony, and this note is exactly the kind of hyperlocal emergency currency — Notgeld — that proliferated across Germany during the acute small-coin shortage of 1916–1917, when metal was being consumed by the war effort faster than the Reichsbank could manage civilian change. District-level authorities like the Amtshauptmannschaft had no business issuing currency under normal circumstances; wartime necessity temporarily made that someone else's problem.
Krey & Sommerlad of Niedergeoritz was a small regional printer, not a specialist security firm — which shows in the rudimentary anti-counterfeiting provision of notes from this series.