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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Schwanebeck (City of Schwanebeck) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light green notgeld on plain paper with a decorative border of scrollwork and floral rosette ornaments. The denomination numeral '10' appears in octagonal cartouches at upper left and upper right, flanking the central Gothic-script title 'Gutschein der Stadt Schwanebeck' above the written value 'über Zehn Pfennig.' A pale green guilloche underprint of interlaced floral motifs occupies the centre, beneath which the issuance text, place, and date 'Schwanebeck, im Januar 1919' are set in letterpress, followed by the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' and a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Gutschein der Stadt Schwanebeck über Zehn Pfennig. Dieser Gutschein gilt bis auf weiteres. Der Verfalltag wird 4 Wochen vorher in den Schwanebecker Zeitungen bekannt gemacht. Schwanebeck, im Januar 1919. Der Magistrat. |
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Schwanebeck is a small town in the Harz foothills of Saxony-Anhalt, and this 10 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that followed Germany's defeat in 1918 — metal coinage had largely vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, leaving municipalities to paper over the gap with locally issued Notgeld. Louis Koch in nearby Halberstadt was a regional printer who handled a number of these small municipal commissions, which accounts for the relatively clean typographic execution compared to some rougher wartime improvised issues.
The Gra#S55.1a designation places it within Grabowski's Notgeld catalogue, and the "a" suffix indicates at least one variant exists in the series.