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10 Pfennig Wurzener Bank
| Issuer | Wurzener Bank |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Dieser Gutschein wird durch unsere Kassen unseren Kunden oder bei uns beschäftigten Personen ausgezahlt. WURZENER BANK Wurzen, 1. März 1917 1914 – 1917 |
| Reverse description | Brown reverse printed in a simple but bold typographic style, with the numeral '10' repeated in each of the four corners within black diamond cartouches. A horizontal guilloche band across the centre carries the text 'Wurzener-Bank' in large serif lettering, intersected by a central circular vignette containing the large bold numeral '10' flanked above by 'über' and below by 'Pfennige'. The word 'Gutschein' appears at the top centre and 'der WURZENER BANK' is printed below the central vignette in bold uppercase letterpress. |
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Wurzener Bank was a regional savings institution in Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipal banks and commercial bodies in 1917, it issued low-denomination emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the acute coin shortage caused by wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. By mid-war, pfennig coins had effectively vanished from retail circulation across Germany, forcing local authorities and private institutions to fill the gap themselves.
The Reichsbank had no practical mechanism to supply small change at that scale, so it tolerated the proliferation. This note was printed locally in Wurzen, almost certainly by a small commercial press, which accounts for the modest production quality typical of Saxon municipal Notgeld from this period.