Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Sternberg (City of Sternberg) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Woodcut-style vignette of a traditional thatched farmhouse set amid trees, printed in dark green and ochre on a cream ground. The town name STERNBERG appears in bold block lettering at upper left, with the denomination 10 PF at upper right, alongside a validity inscription and a facsimile signature of Der Rat der Stadt Sternberg. A Low German dialect verse runs along the lower margin in gothic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | REUTERGELD STADT STERNBERG 10 PFENNIG |
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Sternberg — now Šternberk in the Czech Republic — issued this small-denomination Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that struck Germany and German-administered territories in the early years of World War I. Municipal authorities across the German-speaking world were authorized to print their own emergency scrip when the Reichsbank could not supply sufficient coinage, and hundreds of towns did exactly that. Sternberg was one of the smaller issuers, which limits surviving quantities.
The P#1268 series encompasses three catalogue variants, distinguished by minor text or serial differences rather than design changes.