10 Pfennig black and red issue

Waldenburg — now Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland — was a coal-mining center whose municipal authority, like hundreds of German towns in 1919, resorted to locally printed Notgeld when the postwar coin shortage left ordinary commerce unworkable. Ferdinand Domel's Erben was a local print shop, not a security printer, and the two-color execution in black and red reflects the limits of what a provincial commercial press could reliably produce.

The W3.2a suffix indicates a variant within the series, likely distinguished by a typographic or ink difference from the W3.2 base type — a detail that matters to specialists more than the note itself ever mattered to the miners who spent it.