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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Trebsen (City of Trebsen) |
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| Value | 20 Pfennigs (20 Pfennige) (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-white ground with no underprint or guilloche. The denomination 'Gutschein. / 20 Pfg.' is letterpress-printed in large blackletter type at left, while the upper right corner bears a circular violet official seal of the Stadt Trebsen with a vignette of a crenellated town gate with two flanking towers. A two-line redemption clause in roman type and the issuing authority legend 'Der Stadtgemeinderat' appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein. 20 Pfg. Dieser Schein wird von der Stadtkasse Trebsen zum obigen Betrage eingelöst. Der Stadtgemeinderat. |
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Trebsen is a small town on the Mulde river in Saxony, and its Stadtkasse — the municipal treasury, not a bank — issued this note as Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. Municipal treasuries had no formal authority to issue currency, but emergency need outran legal niceties, and local officials across Germany printed what they needed.
Twenty Pfennig was among the most practical denominations for everyday transactions — tram fares, bread, small market purchases — which means circulation wear is the norm, not the exception, for surviving Trebsen issues.