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10 Pfennig Bank für Handel und Industrie
| Issuer | Bank für Handel und Industrie, Niederlassung Greiz |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK FÜR HANDEL UND INDUSTRIE NIEDERLASSUNG GREIZ. Notgeld Greiz Zehn Pfennig 10 Bank für Handel u. Industrie Niederlassung Greiz. Greiz, d. 1. Oktbr. 1919. Gültig nur im Stadtbezirk Greiz bis Ende 1920. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 10 10 |
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The Bank für Handel und Industrie was a Frankfurt-based commercial institution, but its Greiz branch — operating in the small Thuringian residency town that had been the capital of the Principality of Reuss Younger Line until just a year before this note was issued — issued its own emergency small-change notes when the postwar coin shortage hit in 1919. These Kleingeldscheine filled a genuine gap: copper and nickel had been requisitioned heavily during the war, and pfennig coins had effectively vanished from everyday transactions.
At 64 × 42 mm, this is notgeld at its most minimal — a slip of printed paper deputizing for a coin worth a fraction of almost nothing.