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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goslar (City of Goslar) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on a stippled beige underprint, the obverse is dominated by Gothic blackletter script reading 'Gutschein der Stadt Goslar' along the upper arc, flanked by large numeral '10' denominators at left and right. A central vignette rendered in letterpress style depicts a townscape vignette of Goslar with a heraldic eagle shield in the foreground, set within a decorative banner cartouche. Below, a scroll inscription states the validity clause and issuing authority, signed by the Magistrat with the countersignature 'Kluge', dated 'Goslar, im Dezember 1918'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Goslar Zehn Pfennig 10 Dieser Gutschein ist gültig bis 1. Mai 1920 und wird von unserer Kämmereikasse eingelöst. Goslar, im Dezember 1918. der Magistrat Kluge. |
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Goslar's 1918 emergency money — Kriegsgeld in the strictest sense — was issued by the municipal administration as the imperial banking system buckled under wartime metal shortages. Small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from circulation by mid-1918, hoarded or melted, leaving town councils across Germany to paper over the gap with locally authorized scrip. Goslar was hardly alone in this, but its series is notable for the relatively tight administrative control: the Kluge signature here represents civic accountability, not a rubber stamp.
The P#2375 Goslar grouping is well-documented in Keller's Notgeld catalog, and individual issues within it are distinguishable by date and print run rather than design variation.