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10 Pfennig Uniontheater
| Issuer | Union Theater Weißenfels a/S |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-toned note printed in dark brown letterpress throughout, enclosed within a dotted outer border and a thin ruled inner frame. The issuer's name 'UNION THEATER' and location 'WEISSENFELS A/S' are set in bold decorative typeface at the top, above a central denomination panel reading '10 Pfg' in large ornate Gothic script against an intricate foliate scroll underprint. Below, a four-line redemption clause is set in serifed capitals, flanked at the base by symmetrical scroll ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNION THEATER WEISSENFELS A/S 10Pfg DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH DER ÖFFENT- LICHEN AUFFORDERUNG ZUR EINLÖSUNG (Translation: UNION THEATER WEISSENFELS A/S 10 Pfennig This voucher expires one month after the public announcement of its redemption.) |
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Weißenfels am Saale was a mid-sized Saxon town with a significant shoe manufacturing industry, and its local Notgeld issues from the early 1920s inflation period were produced by individual businesses and venues rather than the municipal authority alone. The Union Theater note is among the more unusual issuers — a cinema or variety hall covering its own small-denomination change shortage, a practice that became briefly normalized across Germany between roughly 1917 and 1923 when pfennig coinage effectively vanished from circulation.
Private venue-issued Notgeld of this type rarely survived in quantity. Most were redeemed quickly or simply discarded once the immediate coin shortage eased.