Catalog
10 Pfennig Industry Series
| Issuer | Stadt Pößneck (City of Pößneck, Thuringia) |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is similarly divided into two vertical panels with a decorative dashed border. The left panel, on a blue ground, bears a denomination cartouche reading 'Pf 10 Pf' in ornamental type above a scroll ribbon inscribed 'Jeder kennt das Pößnecker Leder,' with a vignette of a raw animal hide below. The right panel presents a colour lithographic industrial scene of a tannery yard: a worker tends large wooden barrels or rollers outside a workshop, evoking Pößneck's celebrated leather industry, with the word 'Walzfüller' inscribed at the top and the numeral '10' at each corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Pf 10 Pf Jeder kennt das Pößnecker Leder Walzfüller 10 |
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Pößneck's Notgeld issues from the early 1920s were printed locally by Kuhlborn — unusual for smaller Thuringian towns, which more often contracted out to Leipzig or Jena printers. The Industry Series label suggests this was part of a thematic set, almost certainly produced with collectors in mind as much as for emergency small-change use, a commercial reality that defined much of the later Notgeld wave after 1921.
By that point, genuine purchasing necessity had largely passed; municipalities issued these to generate revenue through direct sales to collectors, a practice that blurred the line between currency and souvenir from the start.