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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Königlichen Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zehn Pfennige Gültig nur im Bezirk der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde und nur bis zum 31 Dezember 1918. Der Bezirksverband der Kgl. Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde Amtshauptmann |
| Reverse description | Tan and brown-toned reverse centred on a rectangular vignette of the Schloss und Ruine Frauenstein, a panoramic landscape view of the hilltop castle and its ruins rendered in fine line engraving, captioned within a banner 'SCHLOSS UND RUINE FRAUENSTEIN'. Below the vignette, the denomination 'Zehn Pfennige' is inscribed in large Gothic script, with series and issue designations 'REIHE 183' and 'AUSGABE I' in capital letters flanking the lower field. The border carries a continuous microtext legend repeating the issuing authority's name, with starburst guilloche rosettes at each corner and the printer's imprint 'KREY & SOMMERLAD, NIEDERGEORITZ' at the foot. |
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Dippoldiswalde is a small administrative district in Saxony, and this note is exactly the kind of hyperlocal emergency currency — Notgeld — that proliferated across Germany during the acute small-coin shortage of 1916–1917, when metal was being consumed by the war effort faster than the Reichsbank could manage civilian change. District-level authorities like the Amtshauptmannschaft had no business issuing currency under normal circumstances; wartime necessity temporarily made that someone else's problem.
Krey & Sommerlad of Niedergeoritz was a small regional printer, not a specialist security firm — which shows in the rudimentary anti-counterfeiting provision of notes from this series.