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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Wetzlar (City of Wetzlar) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-colored Kriegs-Notgeld note printed in black Fraktur letterpress with red typeset serial number at upper center. The denomination '10 Pfennig' appears in corner cartouches at upper left and right, while a lightly printed Prussian eagle watermark-style underprint occupies the center field beneath the large Fraktur legend 'Zehn Pfennig / der Stadt Wetzlar.' The lower portion carries a two-column text block stating acceptance terms and the issue date 'Wetzlar, den 15. Nov. 1918,' with the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right, all enclosed within a decorative typographic border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegs-Notgeld Zehn Pfennig der Stadt Wetzlar. Dieser Schein wird von sämtl. Kassen der Stadtgemeinde Wetzlar bis 15. Nov 1919 angenommen. Wetzlar, den 15. Nov. 1918. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Wetzlar's Notgeld issues of 1918 came at the height of Germany's small-change crisis, when wartime metal requisitioning had stripped coins from everyday commerce almost entirely. Municipal and commercial bodies across the Reich stepped in to fill the gap, and Wetzlar — a small Hessian city better known for its optics industry and its Goethe associations — was among hundreds of local issuers printing their own emergency fractions. The Stadt Wetzlar series was printed locally by Scharfes Druckereien, keeping production costs down and turnaround fast.
These low-denomination municipal issues were designed to be spent quickly and discarded, not saved. Survival rates vary considerably, but 10 Pfennig notes from small-city issuers tend to be underrepresented in collections relative to the better-documented larger denominations.