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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wasserleben |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a multi-layered decorative border with stylised foliate corner ornaments in dark red and olive tones. A central rectangular panel carries the denomination legend in elaborate Gothic Fraktur script. The issuer name appears in a lower horizontal band within the same decorative framework. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical vignette panels beneath bold red numeral denominators '10' at each upper corner. The central panel presents a rural scene of a horse-drawn hay wagon attended by a figure, rendered in a folk-art lithographic style with the artist's initials 'S.M.' visible below. The left panel contains a still-life grouping of agricultural produce, while the right panel shows a stone tower or monument; a horizontal inscription band at the foot references the war years 1870/71 and 1914/18 flanking the motto text. |
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Wasserleben is a village in the Harz foothills, and this 10 Pfennig Notgeld is exactly what you'd expect from a municipality that size — a small-run emergency issue produced to plug the catastrophic coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward. A. W. Zickfeldt in nearby Osterwieck was a regional jobbing printer who handled a significant volume of local Notgeld commissions across the surrounding districts; their work is competent but unambitious.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-catalogued series, which at least gives collectors a reliable anchor for attribution.