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10 Pfennigs Kreis Striegau
| Issuer | Kreis-Sparkasse Striegau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Panoramic vignette of the town of Striegau rendered in a dark blue woodcut-style engraving, with a church and skyline set against rolling hills in the background. Two text blocks flank the upper portion of the note, containing the redemption and validity notices. The denomination '10 PF' and issuer name 'STRIEGAU' are set in bold block lettering across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | KREIS-SPARKASSE STRIEGAU SCHLES. 10 Pf. STRIEGAU 15 Mai 1920 Der Verwaltungsrat. |
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Striegau notgeld of this denomination was produced locally during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI economic dislocation — silver and copper coins had effectively vanished from circulation by 1920, hoarded or melted, forcing hundreds of German municipalities and savings institutions to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Kreis-Sparkasse, as the district savings bank, was the natural authority to authorize such issues rather than the town itself.
Locally printed Kleinnotgeld of this type rarely had sophisticated quality control, and paper stock varied batch to batch.