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10 Pfennig S. Fränkel
| Issuer | S. Fränkel, Neustadt O.S. |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Plain brown card stock with a bold decorative border composed of repeated circular scroll motifs in black. The upper portion carries a red confetti-style underprint field bearing the large bold denomination numeral '10 Pfg.' in black letterpress, surmounted by the voucher heading 'Gutschein über'. The lower panel, set against the unprinted card ground, carries a three-line redemption text and the issuance details 'Neustadt OS., 6. 2. 20.' alongside the issuer's name 'S. Fränkel.' |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfg.-Gutschein nur bei Lohnzahlungen von mir verausgabt und nur in meinen Betrieben umlaufsfähig. S. Fränkel. |
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S. Fränkel was a private commercial issuer operating in Neustadt O.S. — today Prudnik, in what is now southwestern Poland — during the Kleingeldersatz crisis that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of small-denomination coinage into hoarding left towns and individual businesses legally empowered to fill the gap with their own emergency paper, the so-called Notgeld. Hundreds of firms did exactly this, and most of these issues were redeemed and pulped within months of stabilization.
Commercial Notgeld from named private firms survives in far smaller quantities than municipal issues, which were frequently printed in collector-targeted overruns.