Catalog
10 Pfennig Koslowagora
| Issuer | Gemeinde Koslowagora (Municipality of Koslowagora) |
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| Size | 85 x 58 mm |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
| Protection description | Circular municipality official stamp applied by hand to the obverse, required for the note to be valid per the printed inscription. |
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Koslowagora — today Kozłowa Góra, now part of Świętokrzyskie Piekary Śląskie in Upper Silesia — issued this small-denomination Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that struck German municipalities from around 1916 onward. Local authorities across the Reich were left to paper over the gap themselves when hoarding and metal requisitioning stripped everyday change from circulation. A municipal seal was the only security feature most small issuers could manage.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, yet they handled Notgeld contracts for dozens of municipalities across the period.