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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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| Descripción del reverso |
Bicolour reverse printed in teal-green and yellow, enclosed within a dotted border. A central oval vignette in teal-green depicts a winged male figure astride a large eagle in dynamic flight, a shooting star visible to the right; the oval frame is formed by an interlocking chain device with small scroll flourishes at the sides. The denomination '10 PFENNIG 10' appears in bold teal-green lettering along both the top and bottom margins, with the numeral '10' repeated in large yellow figures at each of the four corners. |
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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.