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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Zörbig |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper within a dotted rectangular border. The central vignette, signed "H. Schiebel. 1921." at upper left with the variety numeral "I" at upper right, presents a detailed pen-and-ink landscape view of the Zörbig Schloßturm (castle tower) with its conical roof, flanked by trees and a stone arched bridge in the foreground, birds in flight against a streaked sky. Below the vignette, a four-line verse in Gothic Fraktur script reads an ode to the ancient castle tower. |
| Reverse lettering | H. Schiebel. 1921. I Schloßturm - deine alten Mauern sind vom Zahn der Zeit benagt aber herrisch und erhaben noch dein Haupt zum Himmel ragt. Manches hast du schon gesehen - Krieg u. Brand u. teure Zeit - Sahst Geschlechter kommen - gehen - sahst des Volkes Haß u. Neid. |
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Zörbig is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its municipal authority issued this note during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period — federal minting simply could not keep pace with demand, pushing hundreds of municipalities to print their own low-denomination Kleingeldersatz. H. F. Jütte of Leipzig was one of the more prolific printers of this genre, handling notgeld commissions for numerous Saxon and central German towns simultaneously in 1921.
The DeNG 2#1475.2 reference distinguishes this from at least one other Zörbig issue in the same series.