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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hirschberg i. Schles. (City of Hirschberg in Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 (1919-1920) |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note with ornate scrollwork flanking a central circular vignette bearing the denomination '10 Pfennig'. Text block at top certifies municipal liability under the Magistrat seal, with two manuscript signatures below. Validity date appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress design with the municipal coat of arms of Hirschberg set within elaborate baroque scrollwork at centre top, flanked by denomination numerals '10 Pfennig' in bold at each upper corner. Lower register carries a panoramic townscape vignette of Hirschberg with the Riesengebirge mountains beyond. |
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Hirschberg's Kleingeldscheine were a direct response to the coin shortage that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar years — hoarding and metal scarcity had stripped small denominations from everyday commerce, forcing municipalities across the Reich to print their own stopgap fractional notes. Hirschberg (now Jelenia Góra, Poland) was one of hundreds of German towns that issued these locally-authorized Notgeld pieces between 1919 and 1920, when the central government had neither the capacity nor the coin stock to fill the gap.
The series was invalidated once federal small coinage resumed circulation. Most examples survived precisely because recipients kept them as curiosities rather than spending them.