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10 Pfennig - Seitenberg, Grafschaft Glatz
| Issuer | Municipality of Seitenberg (Grafschaft Glatz, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD AMT SEITENBERG ★ GRAFSCHAFT GLATZ 1919 ★ |
| Reverse description | A beaded outer rim surrounds a circular legend in Latin characters reading GULTIG BIS ZUM OFFENTLICHEN, with the word AUFRUF flanked by two star stops in the lower portion of the legend band. An inner rope circle encloses the large numeral 10 in the central field, denoting the denomination. The design is plain and functional, typical of German municipal Notgeld emergency coinage of the post-World War I period. |
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Seitenberg was a small industrial village in the Grafschaft Glatz — the detached Prussian enclave surrounded on three sides by Bohemia — and this iron notgeld piece dates to the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's defeat in 1918. Hoarding of metal coinage and the near-collapse of the Reichsbank's distribution network forced hundreds of municipalities, down to the smallest factory towns, to issue their own emergency money. Iron was the practical choice: copper and nickel were still being rationed as postwar industrial commodities.