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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roßbach (Municipality of Roßbach bei Braunsbedra) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency currency) voucher printed in dark brown ink on a pale ground with a red guilloche underprint of stylized foliate scrollwork covering the entire field. A decorative border of interlocking circular and geometric ornaments frames the design. The denomination '10 Pfennig' is set in bold blackletter type at centre, beneath the issuer inscription in Gothic script; a small vignette in the lower left quadrant shows a galloping horse clearing a fence, evoking the place name Roßbach. The validity date and the facsimile signature of the Ortsrichter (local magistrate) appear in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Roßbach. 10 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921. Der Ortsrichter: |
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Roßbach bei Braunsbedra is a small settlement in the Saale district of Saxony-Anhalt, historically tied to lignite extraction in the Geiseltal basin. Like hundreds of similarly small German municipalities, it issued Kleingeldscheine — small-denomination paper substitutes — during the acute coin shortage that followed World War One. The Reichsbank's metal coinage had been largely stripped from circulation by wartime hoarding and metal requisitions, forcing even village-level authorities to print their own fractional currency.
Municipal notgeld of this type was typically authorized locally with no central oversight, printed in small runs, and redeemed within weeks or months — which means survival rates vary wildly between issues.