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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Gottesberg (Silesia) |
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| Reference(s) | Gra#:G38.3b |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain cream paper and carries a serial number at upper left, the denomination '10 Ptg.' in large bold numerals at centre top, and 'Serie II.' in a boxed cartouche at upper right. Below, a three-line redemption clause in spaced letterpress reads that the note is redeemable at the Stadthauptkasse Gottesberg, Schl., and declares the note invalid 90 days after the official conclusion of peace. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Ptg. Serie II. Die Einlösung erfolgt bei der Stadthauptkasse Gottesberg, Schl. 90 Tage nach offiziellem Friedensschluss verliert der Schein seine Gültigkeit. |
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Gottesberg was a small Silesian textile town — today Boguszów-Gorce in southwestern Poland — and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own Kleingeld-Ersatzscheine during the severe coin shortages of the First World War. The Stadtblatt-Druckerei was the town's own newspaper press, a thoroughly local operation pressed into monetary service. That the notes carry a watermark at all is worth noting for an issue of this size and origin; most comparable Notgeld from similarly small municipalities dispensed with security features entirely.