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10 Pfennig Rositzer Braunkohlenwerke
| Issuer | Rositzer Braunkohlenwerke A.G., Rositz |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also on rose-red paper with a decorative border, carries a panoramic vignette of the Rositz brown-coal industrial works — a sprawling factory complex with a prominent smokestack and mining headframes rendered in a linear letterpress style against a stippled background. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is inscribed in bold Fraktur at the top, below which the redemption clause is set in two lines. At the lower-left and lower-right corners, square cartouches each contain a pair of crossed miner's hammers. |
| Reverse lettering | Zehn Pfennig Einzulösen bei der Werkskasse |
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Rositz, in Thuringia, was a significant lignite mining centre, and the Rositzer Braunkohlenwerke issued these small-denomination Notgeld to address the chronic coin shortage that gripped Germany during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922. Industrial firms across the region took on quasi-monetary functions out of necessity, not ambition.
The reference date of 30 April 1945 almost certainly reflects a later catalog or archival registration, not a print date — issuing paper Notgeld in a denomination this small on the final day of the Reich's functional collapse would have been operationally meaningless.