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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Waldenburg i/Schl. (City of Waldenburg, Lower Silesia) |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER·STADT·WALDENBURG i/SCHL. 10 Pf. Der Magistrat Fr. Erdmann DER SCHEIN·WIRD UNGÜLTIG·EINEN·MONAT NACH·ANKÜNDIGUNG·IN DEN·WALDENBURGER·ZEITUNGEN. |
| Reverse description | Light green note with a central rectangular vignette, signed by G. Knobloch, illustrating an industrial coal-mining complex with tall smoking chimneys set against a hilly landscape. The denomination 10 PF. appears in bold red within ruled rectangular panels on both the left and right sides, each accompanied by a pair of crossed mining hammers in black. Below the central vignette, a bold Gothic inscription reads ARBEIT·IST·DIE·QUELLE / ALLEN·REICHTUMS, flanked by small foliate ornaments. |
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Waldenburg — now Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland — was a coal-mining hub whose wartime labor demands outpaced the available coinage supply. Like hundreds of German municipalities, the city resorted to Notgeld to keep small transactions moving. These paper Pfennig notes were a local stopgap, not a formal banking instrument, and were never intended to survive long once Reichsbank coin supplies normalized.
Lower Silesian Notgeld from this period is well-documented in specialist literature, but individual municipal issues vary considerably in survival rates depending on how aggressively the issuing town recalled and destroyed outstanding notes after the emergency passed.