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1 Pfennig Demminer Tageblatt
| Issuer | Demminer Tageblatt |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a green letterpress-printed ornamental border of interlaced floral and geometric motifs framing the entire face. The denomination 'Ein Pfennig' is set in large red Fraktur type within a dotted rectangular cartouche at the top centre. Two vertical side panels in red carry brief German mottos. The issuer name 'Demminer Tageblatt' appears in bold Gothic script at the centre, followed by the place and date 'Demmin, 1. Nov. 1918' and a handwritten authorisation signature below. A typeset redemption clause and a note of intended use for staff wage payments appear in the body text and along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ein Pfennig wird dem Einlieferer dieses Scheins bei gleichzeitiger Einwechselung von zehn solcher Scheine gezahlt vom Demminer Tageblatt. Demmin, 1. Nov. 1918. Nur in Kriegszeit ich als Pfennig gelt. Nachher nimmt mich niemand in der Welt. Bestimmt für den Zahlungsverkehr der Firma mit dem Personal. |
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Demminer Tageblatt was a regional newspaper in Demmin, Pomerania, and like dozens of German publishers and local businesses during 1918–1919, it stepped in to produce emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — when coin shortages made low-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Newspapers were practical issuers: they had presses, they had local credibility, and redemption could be enforced by reputation alone.
The Tieste catalogue reference places this firmly within the Va series, the classification covering privately issued Pomeranian Notgeld of the period. Redemption obligations on newspaper-issued notes were often quietly allowed to lapse once the shortage eased.