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10 Pfennig Kreis Wanzleben
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Wanzleben (District Committee of Wanzleben) |
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| Year | 1918-1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries a central rectangular vignette in dark letterpress depicting an industrial mining complex with a winding tower, chimney stacks, and ancillary buildings under a sweeping sky; flanking the vignette on each side are bold Art Nouveau decorative panels of stylised iris or tulip foliage in dark ink over the pink underprint. Directly below the vignette sits a small heraldic shield bearing crossed mining hammers. A multi-line legal text in Gothic script fills the lower half, with a red serial number cartouche at lower right and the printer's imprint at the far lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird bei allen kommunalen Kassen im Kreise Wanzleben an Zahlungsstatt angenommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach zweimaligem Aufgebote im Amtlichen Kreisblatt. Fälschungen werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. Faber, Magdeburg. |
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Wanzleben was an agricultural district southwest of Magdeburg, and its Kreisausschuss — the elected district administrative body — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the final year of the war and into the early Weimar period. Metal coinage had been systematically withdrawn and redirected toward the war economy, leaving local governments, merchants, and municipalities to paper over the gap themselves. The result was an explosion of Kleingeldersatz issues across thousands of German localities.
Faber of Magdeburg printed a large volume of regional Notgeld, and the proximity of printer to issuer here was entirely practical — short runs, fast turnaround, low overhead.