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10 Pfennig Bezirkssparkasse
| Issuer | Bezirkssparkasse Hofheim in Mainfranken |
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| Shape | Square |
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| Obverse lettering | HOFHEIM BEZIRKS- SPARKASSE 10 PFENNIG 10 |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on uncoated cream-toned paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the simple emergency currency production typical of German Notgeld issues of the inflationary period. |
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Bezirkssparkasse Hofheim in Mainfranken was a district savings bank serving a small administrative area in what is now Lower Franconia, Bavaria. Notes of this type belong to the vast proliferation of German Kleingeldscheine — emergency small-change scrip — that flooded local circulation during the acute coin shortages of 1917–1921. Thousands of issuing bodies produced such notes, from municipalities to cooperative societies, and the Reichsbank ultimately moved to suppress the practice by centralizing small-denomination paper production in 1922.
Hofheim am Main's issues are among the more obscure in Mainfranken, with survival rates dependent almost entirely on chance — most were redeemed and pulped.