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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Münsterberg (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Münsterberg Schl. Dieser Gutschein wird von der städtischen Sparkasse in Zahlung genommen. Münsterberg, Schl. den 19. April 1921. Der Magistrat 10 |
| Reverse description | Yellow-toned note with a stepped geometric border matching the obverse. A central intaglio vignette in a ruled rectangular frame shows two figures — an older cloaked figure and a younger standing child — with radiating sunburst lines in the background. Heraldic shields appear in the upper left (Prussian eagle) and upper right (town arms of Münsterberg with castle and star) corners, with ornamental rosette panels in the lower corners. Flanking the central vignette, a two-part biblical quotation is printed in upright Latin capitals: 'UND WENN DAS LEBEN KÖSTLICH GEWESEN,' on the left and 'SO IST ES MÜHE UND ARBEIT GEWESEN' on the right. |
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Münsterberg — now Ziębice in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian market town of perhaps 6,000 inhabitants when this note was issued. The 1921 date places it squarely in Germany's Kleingeldersatz crisis, when the postwar coin shortage drove hundreds of municipal authorities to print their own fractional emergency money. What distinguishes this piece from the mass of similar Notgeld is the watermarked paper — an uncommon security measure for a 10 Pfennig token from a town of this size, where most issuers used plain stock without a second thought.