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10 Pfennig Saarlouis
| Issuer | Stadt Saarlouis (City of Saarlouis) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and dark blue on a fine floral guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The issuer name 'Stadt Saarlouis' appears in decorative Gothic lettering across the top, with the denomination 'zehn Pfennig' rendered in large ornate script in the centre, surmounted by the legend 'Gutschein über'. A circular blue underprint vignette occupies the centre, and the place and date of issue 'Saarlouis, im Oktober 1919' is inscribed below, followed by the authority line 'Der Bürgermeister' with a manuscript signature; a legal text clause runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-brown on a matching floral guilloche underprint. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is inscribed in large flowing script across the upper portion. The central panel carries the crowned civic arms of Saarlouis within a wreath, with the Latin motto 'DISSIPAT ATQUE FOVET' on a ribbon below the crown, flanked on each side by circular cartouches bearing the numeral '10'. A warning legend against counterfeiting runs along the lower margin. |
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Saarlouis issued this Notgeld note in 1919, during the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's defeat and the subsequent occupation of the Rhineland. The city itself was in an anomalous political position: under the postwar Saar settlement being negotiated at Versailles, the region would soon pass to a League of Nations administration, making municipal emergency currency of this period a product of a jurisdiction that was effectively disappearing in real time.
Small-denomination Notgeld from this transitional moment is frequently found in collector-grade condition — much of it was never spent, hoarded by the philatelic trade almost immediately upon issue.