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10 Pfennig

Issuer Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma
Year 1918
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Obverse description Warm ochre-toned Notgeld voucher with a scalloped border frame printed in black. The numeral '10' appears in a large circular dark vignette at left, with the denomination spelled out in Gothic Fraktur script 'Zehn Pfennige' to the right. The upper-right corner bears a validity inscription in Kurrent script, and the issuing authority legend runs along the lower margin above a manuscript signature.
Obverse lettering Gutschein.
Zehn Pfennige
Grimma, 4. November 1918
Gültig im Bezirke der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma bis 31. Dezember 1919.
Der Bezirksverband der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft
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Grimma, a small administrative district in Saxony, issued this note under the Königliche Amtshauptmannschaft — the royal district authority — in 1918, precisely the kind of hyperlocal emergency currency that proliferated across Germany as the war drained coin metal from circulation. The Graphische Werke GmbH in Dresden handled enormous volumes of Notgeld production for Saxon municipalities that year, which is why their output, though technically competent, tends toward the workmanlike rather than the elaborate.

At 46 × 34 mm, this is among the smallest Notgeld formats produced — less paper, less cost, and harder to counterfeit convincingly at scale.

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