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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neuhaldensleben, City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green letterpress on cream paper, sharing the same ornamental border and spiral corner devices as the obverse. A large underprint of the numeral '10' and the word 'PFENNIG' in outlined letters occupies the centre, over which two columns of participating merchant firm names are printed in capital letters. The place and date of issue appear in small type at the upper centre, and a single name is centred both above and below the two columns. |
| Reverse lettering | NEUHALDENSLEBEN, den 1. August 1919. WILH. BALLEIER O. BEHRENDT PAUL BERGER M. BERGMANN P. BUSSE L. FRIEDE ERNST FRITZ PAUL GÖHRING HERM. HÜBENER HERM. JENRICH ERNST KUNSTLER WILH. LOGES PAUL MATZEJEK ALBERT ROSENTHAL A. RÜCKMANN ERICH SCHMALBRUCH WILH. SCHNEIDER FRITZ SENNE AUG. WEINREICH E. ZABEL |
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Neuhaldensleben — a small market town in the Prussian province of Saxony — issued this Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's defeat in 1918. Hoarding of metal coinage had become endemic long before the armistice, and municipal authorities across Germany were printing their own small-denomination paper to keep local commerce moving. Thousands of towns did the same through 1919 and 1920.
The Va reference prefix places this within the standard Grabowski-Mehl Notgeld catalog. August 1919 as the issue date puts it squarely in the period before the Reichsbank's attempts to rationalize and eventually suppress local emergency issues.