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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Saarbrücken (City of Saarbrücken) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue guilloche underprint on white paper, centred on a circular vignette containing a large white numeral '10' enclosed within a blue border. The issuing authority text and denomination legend are set above and below the central device in Gothic Fraktur script, with the Oberbürgermeister's authority line and the date of issue, March 1919, printed beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Light blue guilloche underprint across the entire field, with the quartered coat of arms of Saarbrücken set within an ornate oval cartouche of scrollwork at centre. Large white numerals '10' appear to the left and right of the arms, and Gothic Fraktur inscriptions above and below the central vignette are separated by double ruled lines. |
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Saarbrücken's 1919 Notgeld issue emerged in the chaotic interregnum between Germany's defeat and the formal detachment of the Saar territory under League of Nations administration, which began in 1920. The city was printing its own emergency money while its political future was actively being decided at Versailles — a situation that makes even low-denomination municipal scrip historically loaded.
Saarbrücken-printed Notgeld from this precise window is less common than issues from cities further from the new Franco-German fault line, where normal commerce had a better chance of recovery.