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10 Pfennig black issue
| Issuer | Waldenburg (Silesia), City of |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | A small-format German notgeld note of 10 Pfennig denomination issued by the City of Waldenburg in Silesia, printed in black on plain paper. The face carries the issuing authority's name and denomination value in Gothic letterpress typeface, typical of wartime municipal emergency currency. The overall layout is utilitarian, consistent with the austere graphic conventions of Silesian notgeld issues of the 1914–1924 period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this small municipal notgeld note is printed in black, bearing the denomination and legal text in Gothic script letterpress, consistent with standard Waldenburg city issue formatting. The composition is spare, with minimal decorative elements, reflecting the emergency production context of Silesian wartime currency. |
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Waldenburg — now Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland — was a coal-mining town whose wartime labor shortages and metal scarcity made small-denomination Notgeld a practical necessity rather than a collector's novelty. These black-ink paper pieces were among the most utilitarian of the Silesian emergency issues, produced locally with minimal printing infrastructure.
The region changed hands to Poland in 1945, and most municipal records from the issuing period were lost or dispersed, which leaves the precise issue date and print run for this piece poorly documented.