10 Pfennig Rappoltsweiler

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.