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10 Pfennigs waves and value in underprint
| Issuer | Rheingaukreis (District of Rheingau, Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the Niederwald Monument with the Germania statue, flanked by the district name RHEINGAUKREIS. The denomination 'Zehn Pfennig' is inscribed alongside the issuing authority text, with the date of issue and place name Rüdesheim printed in letterpress. A guilloche underprint of wave patterns runs across the entire surface. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN Zehn Pfennig Rüdesheim, den 26. Juni 1917 Der Kreisausfchur des Rheingaukreises RHEINGAUKREIS (Translation: Voucher Ten Pfennigs Rüdesheim, June 26, 1917 The District Executive Committee of the Rheingau District Rheingau District) |
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Rheingaukreis issued this note in 1917 under the Kleingeldersatz system — the Reich's framework permitting local authorities to produce low-denomination emergency currency (Notgeld) as wartime coin shortages bit into everyday commerce. The district, a wine-growing administrative unit along the Rhine between Rüdesschheim and Lorch, had no particular monetary infrastructure of its own; the authorization came from above, the printing contract went to Gebrüder Parcus in Munich, a firm that handled considerable Notgeld volume during this period for municipalities across Bavaria and beyond.
1917-dated municipal Notgeld tends to be the utilitarian first wave — purely functional, before issuers discovered collectors would pay premiums for decorative designs after the war.