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10 Pfennige
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Zwickau (City of Zwickau, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative guilloche border. The issuer's name 'Stadtgemeinde Zwickau i. Sa.' is set in Gothic Fraktur typeface at the top above the serial number, with the bold numeral '10' placed in an ornamental panel at the upper right. The central legend 'Zehn Pfennige' in Fraktur script is followed below by a manuscript signature over the title 'Oberbürgermeister' and a validity clause limiting acceptance to the Zwickau municipal district until 31 December 1918. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Zwickau's 1918 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after the Imperial government effectively abandoned small-denomination coinage — hoarded or melted almost entirely by mid-war. Cities and towns were left to improvise, and most did so quickly and without much coordination. The Stadtgemeinde simply filled the gap the Reichsbank wouldn't.
The guilloche underprint is machine-generated intaglio patterning borrowed from banknote security printing — unusual for municipal Notgeld of this scale, where most issuers settled for plain typeset designs on whatever paper stock was available locally.