10 Pfennig

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.