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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Annaberg (City of Annaberg), Saxony |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Mauve-toned reverse printed in black and yellow, centred on a bold six-pointed star rendered in black with a yellow interior, within which stands a full-length vignette of a traditional Saxon miner (Bergmann) in ceremonial uniform holding a candle-lamp and a mallet. The denomination numerals '10' appear at lower left and lower right of the star, while the Gothic inscriptions 'Stadt' and 'Annaberg' are placed at upper left and upper right respectively against the plain mauve ground. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Annaberg 10 10 |
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Annaberg issued this note — along with dozens of other small-denomination Notgeld pieces — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Municipal and private issuers across Saxony flooded the market in 1919, and the Stadt Annaberg series was among the more modest local efforts: functional scrip rather than the decorative collector-targeted Notgeld that would dominate the early 1920s.
Annaberg itself had been a significant silver-mining town since the late fifteenth century, which gives a certain irony to its citizens relying on paper fragments to make change.