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10 Pfennig Rappoltsweiler
| Issuer | Stadt Rappoltsweiler (Municipality of Rappoltsweiler) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 70 × 42 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette comprises the crowned municipal coat of arms of Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler), printed in red against a yellow frame bordered with a fruit motif, flanked on either side by an asterisk; an oak branch underprint accompanies the shield. The city name is inscribed in black letterpress at the top, the denomination numeral at centre, and the serial number at lower right. A blue municipal stamp bearing the coat of arms of a blessing hand with three shields is applied by hand, its position varying from note to note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Rappoltsweiler * 10 * Pfennig N° 1200 SIEGEL DER STADT RAPPOLTSWEILER, OB.-ELS. |
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Rappoltsweiler — today Ribeauvillé in Alsace — was under German administration when this note was issued, and like hundreds of other Alsatian municipalities in 1917, the town produced its own emergency currency as the war drained coin from circulation entirely. The Kleingeldscheine of this period were a local necessity, not a policy instrument.
The JP1418 reference places this within Grabowski and Mehl's exhaustive catalog of German notgeld issues. Alsatian municipal pieces from 1917 tend to be among the less-collected within the notgeld field, largely overshadowed by the more elaborate 1920–1922 series printed for collectors.