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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Borna |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | A light blue guilloche underprint covers the field, with the denomination legend distributed across the upper portion and a large Gothic numeral '10' at centre-top flanked by two ornamental blue ribbon scrolls. A blue heraldic shield bearing two crossed mining hammers is centred below, set against a symmetrical arrangement of wheat or grain sheaves rendered in reddish-brown. A series designation in Gothic script appears at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 10 Pfennig Reihe F |
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Borna, a coal-mining district south of Leipzig, was among hundreds of German administrative districts that issued their own emergency paper — Notgeld — during the acute small-change shortage of 1919. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying low-denomination coin, leaving local Amtshauptmannschaften to fill the gap themselves. These district-level issues were often printed in very small runs by local commercial printers, and many circulated for only a matter of months before being redeemed and pulped.
The Bezirksverband designation places this squarely within the rural administrative tier, one step above individual municipal issues. Brown coal extraction dominated the Borna economy at the time, and the district had the tax base to back even a modest fiduciary issue.