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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Waldenburg i. Schl. |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted notgeld on a wavy-line guilloche underprint, enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of floral and geometric motifs. The bold numeral '10' appears at upper centre, with 'Serie I' and a series designation in red at upper left and right; the denomination 'Zehn Pfennige' is set below in ornate blackletter type. A three-line redemption clause in Fraktur script occupies the lower half, concluded by the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat der Stadt Waldenburg i. Schl.' with a facsimile manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-face vignette printed in deep red-brown, reproducing a photographic view of the Waldenburg Rathaus, a late-nineteenth-century Neo-Gothic brick edifice with three pointed spires and an elaborately articulated facade, with figures visible in the forecourt. The image is contained within a plain double-rule rectangular border with no additional text or inscription. |
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Waldenburg in Schlesien — now Wałbrzych in Poland — was a coal-mining town whose municipal government issued notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. The Magistrat's authority to issue such emergency scrip was informal at best; these notes circulated purely on local trust, redeemable in theory at the town cashier's office but with no guarantee beyond civic goodwill.
Silesian notgeld of this type was frequently printed in small runs by local jobbing printers, which accounts for the variation in paper quality and impression sharpness seen across surviving examples from the same issuer.