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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Löbejün (City of Löbejün) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink and black letterpress note with a decorative scroll border. At left, a dark vignette panel bears the crowned municipal coat of arms of Löbejün with two crossed keys, captioned 'Löbejüner Stadtgeld'. The main field carries the denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' in bold Gothic script above the date 'Löbejün, 10. April 1920' and a serial number line with manuscript signatures for Bürgermeister and Beigeordneter. |
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| Reverse lettering | Löbejüner Stadtgeld 10 10 Dieser Gutschein wird eingelöst bei der städt. Sparkasse Löbejün Nachahmung wird strafrechtlich verfolgt Loewe's Geburtshaus in Löbejün. GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN. |
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Löbejün was a small town in the Prussian province of Saxony — population well under a thousand in 1920 — which makes its appearance on a notgeld issue entirely unremarkable. Hundreds of similarly tiny municipalities issued emergency small-change notes that year as Germany's coin shortage, a direct consequence of wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding, left ordinary commerce functionally paralyzed at the pfennig level.
Gebrüder Parcus of Munich was one of the more prolific notgeld printers of the period, handling contracts for municipalities across Germany. Their output was competent and consistent, if rarely distinguished.