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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Halle an der Saale (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GEGEN DIESEN SCHEIN ZAHLT DIE STADT HALLE DEM MAGISTRAT DIE GUELTIGKEIT ZUR EINLOESUNG NACHFORDERN 10 |
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| Reverse lettering | DER DOM ZU HALLE ERBAUT VON CARDINAL ALBRECHT IM JAHRE 1520 |
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Stadt Halle an der Saale was among hundreds of German municipalities that issued their own Kleingeldersatz — small change substitutes — during the postwar coin shortage that followed WWI. The 1921 date places this squarely in the middle of the Notgeld phenomenon's most prolific phase, before hyperinflation made pfennig-denominated paper functionally worthless within months.
The square format was a deliberate choice by some issuers to visually distinguish emergency municipal scrip from Reichsbank currency — a practical signal to the public that this piece had local, not national, authority behind it.