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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mylau (City of Mylau) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted notgeld voucher with a central oval vignette presenting a detailed line-engraved view of Mylau Castle set amid trees, printed in dark blue ink. The heading reads 'Gutschein' flanked by decorative scroll borders, with 'Stadtgemeinde' at upper left and 'Mylau i/v.' at upper right. The denomination numeral '10' appears in a bold circular cartouche at lower left, alongside the cursive Gothic legend 'Zehn Pfennig', with the issuing authority inscription 'Der Stadtrat' and a handwritten signature below. |
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| Reverse description | Orange guilloche underprint panel occupies the lower two-thirds of the reverse, with the numeral '10' printed in large bold figures flanking a central embossed oval stamp bearing a civic seal with a standing figure. A serial number is printed in black below the central seal. The upper portion carries the Gothic-script denomination legend 'Zehn Pfennig' followed by the validity restriction clause 'Gültig nur im Stadtbezirke Mylau i/v.' on a cream ground within a dark ruled border. |
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Mylau is a small textile-manufacturing town in the Vogtland district of Saxony, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany from 1914 onward as small coins vanished from circulation almost overnight — hoarded by a public that trusted metal over paper. Towns, businesses, and even individual shops printed their own emergency scrip to make change. The Stadtgemeinde's embossed seal was the only available authentication measure at this scale of issuer.
Vogtland municipal Notgeld from this period was typically printed locally in small runs and redeemed quickly, leaving survivors in genuinely limited numbers.