10 Pfennig

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.