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10 Pfennig Neunhofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neunhofen (Municipality of Neunhofen, Germany) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on salmon-toned paper and framed by a double-ruled border with corner ornaments. The municipality name 'Neunhofen' is split across the left and right fields in large Gothic blackletter script, flanked on each side by the denomination numeral '10' and the legend 'Pfennig.' A central vignette, set beneath a Gothic pointed arch supported by two pillars and surmounted by a heraldic shield, presents a detailed townscape of the oldest church of the issuing locality, identified in the caption 'Älteste Kirche d. Orlagaus.' The lower left carries the validity clause 'Erlischt vier Wochen nach ortsüblicher Bekanntgabe,' while the lower right bears the issue date '1. Sept. 1921' and a facsimile signature above the title 'Bürgermeister.' |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Gemeinde Neunhofen 10 Pfennig Erb. v. Pfalzgräfin. Richen z. von Ehrenfried. Anno 1100. Erlischt vier Wochen nach ortsüblicher Bekanntgabe 1. Sept. 1921 Bürgermeister Älteste Kirche d. Orlagaus Schulz |
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Neunhofen is a village in Thuringia, and in 1921 it was doing what hundreds of similarly small German municipalities were doing: printing its own emergency money because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough coin and small-denomination currency to keep local commerce moving. This particular note was produced by Ewald Taudte's print shop in nearby Neustadt-Orla, a regional printer that handled Notgeld commissions for several surrounding communities during this period.
The designer credit to "Schulz" is almost certainly a local commercial artist rather than anyone of broader attribution — common for Thuringian municipal issues of this vintage.