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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Quedlinburg-Land (District of Quedlinburg-Land) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper in a decorative Jugendstil letterpress style. The note is headed with the issuer's title in bold blackletter script within a ruled border, flanked on left and right by oval denomination panels each bearing the numeral '10' within guilloche surrounds. A central cartouche in arch form carries a two-line rhyming Notgeld slogan in blackletter. The lower margin states the validity date at left and bears a facsimile signature with the title of the Landrat at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sparkasse von Quedlinburg-Land 10 10 Notgeld von Quedlinburg Land |
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Quedlinburg-Land was one of hundreds of rural German administrative districts that issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward. The district-level issuers were, by design, the most local and least coordinated tier of Notgeld production, which means surviving pieces from Kreis Quedlinburg-Land carry no guarantee of central oversight in printing quality or serial control.
The Quedlinburg region had issued currency-adjacent documents before — the old abbacy of Quedlinburg had minting rights dating back to the medieval period — but that history has no bearing here. This is wartime fiscal improvisation, pure and simple.