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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hirschberg i. Schles. (City of Hirschberg, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 (1920-1921) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown ink on pink-red paper, the obverse is enclosed within a double-line border with scrollwork vignettes in the lateral margins; the issuing authority legend appears in bold letterpress at the upper portion, beneath which two facsimile signatures of municipal officials are presented under the attribution 'Der Magistrat'. A central circular medallion at the lower centre bears the denomination numeral '10' above 'Pfennig', flanked by the inscriptions 'Gutschein über' to the left and 'Giltig bis 31. März 1920.' to the right, the entire field overlaid with a fine guilloche underprint in red. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadtgemeinde Hirschberg i. Schles. haftet für die Einlösung. Der Magistrat Gutschein über 10 Pfennig Giltig bis 31. März 1920. |
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Hirschberg's 10 Pfennig Notgeld belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency issues that flooded Germany in 1920, when the Reichsbank's coin shortage — a direct consequence of wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding — pushed local governments to print their own small-denomination scrip. Stadtgemeinde Hirschberg, a mid-sized Silesian commercial town, was among hundreds of municipalities legally permitted to do so under temporary Reich authorization.
Silesian Notgeld from this window is complicated by the plebiscite crisis: the 1921 Upper Silesia vote and its aftermath created genuine uncertainty about whether certain towns would remain German, which affected how aggressively local authorities spent money on elaborate printings. Hirschberg, in Lower Silesia, was never in the disputed zone and stayed firmly within German borders — so these notes were issued and redeemed under stable, if inflationary, conditions.