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10 Pfennigs Saarlouis
| Issuer | Stadt Saarlouis (City of Saarlouis) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Saarlouis Gutschein über zehn Pfennig Saarlouis, im Oktober 1919 Der Bürgermeister Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung im Saarlouiser Journal |
| Reverse description | Red-pink guilloche underprint with uniform floral lattice pattern. A central vignette presents the crowned civic coat of arms of Saarlouis within a laurel wreath, bearing the motto 'DISSIPAT ATQUE FOVET' on a ribbon. Numeral '10' appears in large outlined figures within circular frames to left and right, surmounted by a cursive 'Zehn Pfennig' inscription. An anti-counterfeiting warning is printed in Roman type along the lower margin. |
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Saarlouis issued its own emergency small-change notes in 1919 because the postwar coin shortage had made everyday transactions nearly impossible — a problem shared by hundreds of German municipalities that year, producing the vast wave of Kleingeldscheine now known collectively as Notgeld. What sets Saarlouis apart is the timing: the city was placed under League of Nations administration as part of the Saar Territory in 1920, making any civic paper issued in 1919 a product of a municipality that would shortly cease to exercise independent German authority altogether.
Printed locally by the Saarlouiser Journal A.G., the note's production was entirely domestic — no outside printer, no shipped stock.