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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Traunstein (City Magistrate of Traunstein, Bavaria) |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Städtische Kartoffel Zehn Pfg. Geldnote f. Minderbemittelte Stadtmagistrat Traunstein (Translation: 10 City Potato Ten Pfennigs Banknote for the underprivileged City Magistrate Traunstein) |
| Reverse description | Bicolor design in red and dark blue on buff paper with a repeating wave guilloche underprint and vertical line background. Central vignette comprises an oval frame enclosing the Traunstein municipal coat of arms in dark blue. The inscription "Stadtgemeinde Traunstein" is split across the central band flanking the arms, with "10 Pfennig" repeated in script at top and bottom. Large red numeral "10" underprints occupy each corner, and a printer's reference "E.L.T.III.17" appears at lower right. |
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Traunstein is a small market town in Upper Bavaria near the Austrian border, and its city magistrate was among the thousands of local German authorities — municipalities, savings banks, even individual businesses — that issued emergency paper currency (Notgeld) during the severe coin shortage that developed from 1916 onward. The Reichsbank could not keep small denomination coinage in circulation; people were hoarding metal on an industrial scale.
These hyperlocal issues are notoriously difficult to date precisely within the Notgeld period, which ran in overlapping waves through the early 1920s. Traunstein's civic series is minor in output and largely unattributed to a specific printer.