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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lobenstein (Reuss) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on a rose-pink guilloche underprint, the obverse carries the issuer's title 'Stadt Lobenstein (Reuss)' in bold Fraktur lettering at the top, flanked by two square cartouches each bearing the numeral '10' above the word 'Pfennige'. The large central inscription 'Gutschein über Zehn Pfennige' dominates the field in ornate Gothic script. The date 'Lobenstein, den 15. Sept. 1919' appears in the lower section alongside a serial number, two manuscript signatures above the printed titles 'Bürgermeister' and 'Gemeinderats-Vorsitzender', with cautionary and validity notices bordering the design; poetic verses run along the top and bottom margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Lobenstein Reuss 10 Pfg. Orlishausen, 19. "O Herr, gib Regn und Sonnenschein für Greiz, Schleiz und Lobenstein; und wolln die andern auch was ha'n, so mögen sie Dir's selber sa'n" GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN. |
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Lobenstein was the administrative seat of the tiny principality of Reuss Younger Line, one of the smallest sovereign states in the German Empire — its ruling house numbered its princes in a single unbroken sequence across all branches, a genealogical oddity that made Reuss a curiosity even among the patchwork of pre-Weimar statelets. By 1919 the principality had already dissolved into Thuringia, and it was the town itself, not any princely authority, issuing emergency Kleingeld to address the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed local trade across Germany in the immediate postwar period.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled an enormous volume of Notgeld commissions from municipalities across Bavaria and Thuringia during this period, which kept quality consistent but designs relatively workmanlike.