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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Jena (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Residenz- u. Universitätsstadt Jena Gutschein über 10 Pf. Jena, den 1. März 1917. Der Gemeindevorstand. Stadtfinanzdiretktor. Gültig nur im Stadtbezirt Jena. Umwechslung jederzeit in Reichsgeld bei allen städtischen Kassen. Beschluß des Gemeinderates vom 1. März 1917. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same dark green on white paper, with a matching guilloche border and corner numeral-10 medallions. At centre, the Jena municipal coat of arms — an angel with outstretched wings standing before a gothic multi-towered cityscape — is rendered in a bold woodcut-style vignette, flanked by the Gothic-script legends 'Stadt Jena' above and 'Zehn Pfennig' below. A block of small-print anti-counterfeiting and redemption conditions text occupies the middle register, and a black-framed serial number box is printed at the foot. |
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Jena's 1917 Kleingeldscheine were issued to address the acute small-coin shortage that had gripped Germany by mid-war, as copper and nickel were increasingly diverted to munitions production. The Reich government had authorized municipalities to print emergency fractional notes — Notgeld in the strictest sense — rather than mint the coins that raw material scarcity made impossible. Jena, then still within the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, printed locally, an arrangement that produced considerable variation in paper quality and impression consistency across the series.
By 1918 most of these notes had been withdrawn and pulped, which accounts for the attrition in surviving examples at this denomination.