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10 Pfennig Dippoldiswalde
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Dippoldiswalde |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned note printed in black on buff paper. A ruled rectangular panel at centre carries a typeset serial number, flanked above by two horizontal lines and the validity restriction legend. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold letterpress at centre-left, with the word 'Pfennige' to its right, and the redemption clause printed along the lower margin between two ruled lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig nur innerhalb der Stadt Dippoldiswalde Wertmarke über 10 Pfennige Bei der Stadtkasse Dippoldiswalde einzulösen |
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Dippoldiswalde is a small Saxon mining town in the Erzgebirge foothills, and this 10 Pfennig Stadtrat note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany during the First World War. From 1916 onward, hoarding of metal coins — driven by commodity speculation and raw material demands on the war economy — forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency paper fractionals, collectively known as Kleingeldscheine or Notgeld.
Local printing in a town of this size almost certainly meant a jobbing press rather than a specialist security printer, which accounts for the variable print quality seen across surviving examples of comparable Saxon municipal issues.