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10 Pfennig - Grünhain
| Issuer | City of Grünhain |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Technique | Pressed |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing the municipal coat of arms of Grünhain, depicting a heraldic shield charged with a conifer tree above a deer, rendered in low relief on the compressed cardboard surface. The arms are framed by a circular legend reading DIE STADT GRÜNHAIN, with the text distributed along the upper and lower periphery respectively. The fibrous texture of the cardboard material is visible across the entire surface, characteristic of German Notgeld emergency issues of the post-World War I period. |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral '10' is rendered in large, bold raised figures occupying the central field, enclosed within two concentric incuse circular rings that define an inner border. The composition is stark and utilitarian, consistent with the emergency Notgeld coinage of the Weimar-era monetary crisis. The plain cardboard field surrounding the concentric rings shows the characteristic fibrous texture of the pressed material. |
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Grünhain is a small Saxon town whose wartime and postwar coin shortage forced local authorities — like hundreds of German municipalities — to issue their own emergency money (Notgeld) when the central government could not supply adequate small change. Cardboard was a practical desperation measure; metal had been consumed by the war, and celluloid or linen alternatives were costlier to produce at this scale. The 1919–1920 window places this squarely in the chaotic transition between armistice and the early Weimar period, before federal stabilization efforts brought municipal issues under control.