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10 Pfennig Staatskassenschein
| Issuer | Herzogl. Br.-Lüneb. Finanzkollegium, Abt. f. Leihhaaussachen (Ducal Brunswick-Luneburg Finance College, Department of Pawn Shops) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and pink bicolour note with an ornate guilloche underprint in pink across the entire field, enclosed by a green geometric border of repeated denomination numerals '10' in squares and circles. The Brunswick ducal coat of arms, rendered as a small circular vignette, occupies the upper centre. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is printed in large Gothic (Fraktur) script across the middle of the note. Below, a three-line text block states the expiry date and issuing authority, beneath which two manuscript signatures appear, accompanied by an embossed official seal to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Green and pink bicolour note sharing the same guilloche underprint and geometric border design as the obverse, with denomination numerals '10' repeated in the surrounding frame. The Brunswick ducal coat of arms vignette appears again at upper centre, flanked by the inscription 'Herzogtum Braunschweig' in two parts. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is rendered in large Gothic script centrally, followed below by the word 'Geldschein' and a single line of text in smaller Fraktur script stating the note's redeemability at all state treasuries of the Duchy. |
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A product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, as hoarding stripped silver and copper coins from circulation almost entirely. The issuing body — the finance arm of the ducal pawn shop administration in Brunswick — was not a bank, not a municipality, and not a military authority, which makes it among the more obscure institutional issuers of German wartime Kleingeldersatz. The embossed seal was the only security measure deemed necessary for a note of this denomination, reflecting the purely local, short-range trust on which these emergency issues depended.