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10 Pfennige Kingdom issue
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark brown and orange-ochre on a cream ground, with a large floral rosette underprint at centre. The denomination appears in bold script letterpress as 'Zehn Pfennige' across the middle, with the numeral '10' in large outlined figures at upper right. A circular orange vignette at left bears the Saxon royal arms encircled by the legend 'BEZIRKSVERBAND PIRNA'. Below the central design, the issuing authority is stated in cursive script followed by a facsimile signature line and the validity clause along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue and grey-beige, dominated by a large guilloche numeral '10' as a pale underprint filling the centre, overlaid by the denomination 'Zehn Pfennige' and 'Bezirk Pirna' in bold script. A solid dark blue numeral '10' in a dotted circle appears at lower right. At lower left, the series and issue identifiers 'REIHE' and 'AUSGABE' are overprinted in red, with the printer's imprint 'KREY u. SOMMERLAD, NIEDERSEDLITZ DR.' along the bottom margin. The entire design is framed by a fine double-rule border with wavy-line fillers and a typeset text underprint running along all four margins. |
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Pirna's Amtshauptmannschaft — a Saxon administrative district rather than a municipality — was among the many rural German authorities that stepped in to print emergency small-change during the acute coin shortage of 1914–1918. The designation "Königlichen" dates this series to before November 1918, when the abdication of Friedrich August III ended the Kingdom of Saxony; notes issued after that point dropped the royal designation entirely.
Krey und Sommerlad in Niedersedlitz, a suburb south of Dresden, handled a substantial volume of local Notgeld printing for Saxony's district administrations. Their output was functional rather than decorative, unlike the later commemorative Notgeld wave of 1920–1922.