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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Steinheid (Saxe-Meiningen), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Issued on pale green paper with a light green underprint of the town name "Steinheid" in large script across the centre field, the obverse carries a mural crown vignette at top centre flanked by the inscription "Notgeld" in Gothic script on either side. Two winged putti in flight are positioned symmetrically to the left and right of the central text area, which reads "DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND" above the facsimile signatures of Eichhorn and Richter. Large numeral "10" appears in the lower corners above the denomination inscription "PFENNIG" at foot centre, all rendered in dark blue letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | No reverse image provided; reverse details are not available for this note. |
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Steinheid is a small forestry village in the Thuringian highlands, and this 1920 emergency note is about as local as Notgeld gets. Issued during the coin shortage that followed Germany's post-war economic dislocation, municipal authorities across thousands of German-speaking communities printed their own fractional scrip — Steinheid among them, signing off through two local officials rather than any banking institution.
The Eichhorn and Richter signatures point to municipal administrative staff, not financial officers. Redemption was theoretically guaranteed by the issuing community, though for villages this size, that guarantee was largely nominal.