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10 Pfennigs Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkassen des Mansfelder Seekreises |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 73 x 46.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld with a tan underprint vignette of rural figures flanking the central text block. Two circled denomination numerals '10' anchor the upper corners. A gothic-script tablet at lower left carries a moral verse, with the issuing authority's signature and date 'Eisleben, den 14. Dezember 1920' at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Mansfelder Seekreis Zehn Pfennig Der treue Mann den Pfennig ehrt, Wenn er des Taters kühn begehrt! Ehrt jemand den Zehnpfennigschein, Muß er wohl zehnfach besser sein. Hier hebt ihr wieder was zu gucken, Auch das will deutsche Münze sein Ob nur es so ob so bedrucken, In aller Welt gilt nur der Schein. |
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The Mansfelder Seekreis notgeld series emerged from the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany's industrial districts after World War One. The Mansfeld region was copper country — one of the oldest continuous mining areas in Germany, producing copper since at least the twelfth century — which gives a certain irony to a paper emergency note issued precisely because metal coinage had disappeared from circulation.
The Sparkasse issues from this district are among the more utilitarian of the 1920 notgeld wave, produced without the elaborate chromolithography that characterized the collector-oriented "Serienscheine" flooding the market by mid-decade.