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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Schneeberg (City Council of Schneeberg im Erzgebirge) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kleingeld-Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig der Stadt Schneeberg. Der Stadtrat zu Schneeberg Bürgermeister. Gültig nur im Stadtbezirke Schneeberg bis mit 31. Dezember 1919. Die Einlösung erfolgt durch unsere Stadthauptkasse. |
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| Protection description | Circular red municipal seal of the Stadt Schneeberg applied to the obverse at lower left. |
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Schneeberg's 1919 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Saxony in the months following the armistice, when coin shortages — driven by wartime metal hoarding and the collapse of normal Reichsbank distribution — forced hundreds of small towns to print their own fractional notes. The Stadtrat had no choice; without small-denomination scrip, local commerce simply stopped.
The official seal serves as the sole security feature, which was entirely typical of Erzgebirge municipal issues and did essentially nothing to prevent forgery — a problem widely acknowledged and largely ignored at this denomination.