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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Thannhausen (Market Municipality of Thannhausen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in bold black letterpress and carries a central oval vignette of the Thannhausen castle with flanking round towers and trees, enclosed within a decorative cartouche of acanthus scrollwork and ornamental corner panels. Two banner ribbons flanking the vignette bear the inscription 'Marktgemeinde' at left and 'Thannhausen' at right in Gothic blackletter. The denomination '10 Pf.' appears in grey underprint at each of the four corners of the otherwise plain paper field. |
| Reverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Thannhausen 10 Pf. |
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Thannhausen is a small market town in Bavarian Swabia, and this note is a piece of Kleingeldscheine — the emergency small-change scrip that flooded Germany during the acute coin shortage of the First World War and its aftermath. Municipal authorities across Bavaria issued their own fractional notes when the Reichsbank could not keep low-denomination coinage in circulation; Thannhausen was simply doing what hundreds of comparable communities did between roughly 1916 and 1922.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a well-established regional printer with a long history of ecclesiastical and civic work — the 1842 date in their records refers to the firm's founding, not any connection to this note's issue date.