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10 Pfennig Bezirkssparkasse
| Issuer | Bezirkssparkasse Mellrichstadt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜR MICH ZAHLT DIE BEZIRKSSPARKASSE MELLRICHSTADT 10 Pfennig |
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| Reverse lettering | SPARE IN DER ZEIT SO HAST DU IN DER NOT 1920 |
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Bezirkssparkasse Mellrichstadt was one of hundreds of German district savings banks forced into emergency currency issuance during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These Kleingeldscheine — small-denomination notgeld filling the gap left by hoarded copper and nickel — were authorised locally and redeemed locally, with no central oversight of print runs or destruction records. Mellrichstadt, a small Bavarian market town, produced notes that circulated almost exclusively within its immediate district.
Survival rates for low-denomination 1920 paper notgeld are poor; the material was flimsy and spent hard before redemption drives pulled most of it back.