10 Pfennig

Barby is a small town on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldscheine crisis that swept German municipalities in 1920 — a second wave of emergency coinage shortages following the wartime Notgeld boom. By this point, hundreds of German towns were issuing their own fractional paper simply to keep retail trade moving, as the central government could not produce low-denomination coin fast enough to meet demand.

The dual signatures of Ohlen and Kropp represent the Magistrat's co-authorization requirement — a procedural check meant to limit unauthorized overissue, though enforcement was inconsistent across municipalities of this size.