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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Düsseldorf (City of Düsseldorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT DUESSELDORF Dieser Gutschein wird bis spätst. 31. März 1921 bei sämtl. Kassen d. St. Düsseldorf in Zahlung genommen. Düsseldorf, d. 10. Jan. 1920. Der Oberbürgermeister 10 PFENNIG REIHE II No |
| Reverse description | Black and red letterpress design with a central white panel framed by a heavy black border, inscribed 'STADT DUESSELDORF' in red at top and bottom. The denomination 'ZEHN PFENNIG' is rendered in decorative red Gothic script at centre, flanked above and below by red eight-pointed star ornaments. To the left and right, tall black vertical panels each carry the numeral '10' at top and bottom enclosing a heraldic lion vignette in red and black, representing the civic arms of Düsseldorf. |
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Stadt Düsseldorf issued a substantial range of Kleingeldscheine in 1920 to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that plagued German municipalities in the immediate postwar years. The city's series is unusually well-documented, and the DeNG reference numbers here suggest this note exists in at least two distinct sub-varieties — likely differing in serial number font, signature combination, or paper stock rather than any fundamental design change.
Düsseldorf's notgeld program was administered with more bureaucratic consistency than many smaller towns, which makes condition variation among survivors more attributable to actual circulation than to chaotic storage or emergency hoarding.