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10 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Haspe (City of Haspe) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Haspe über ZEHN Mark 10 Dieser Gutschein wird spätestens bis zum 1. Februar 1919 zur Einlösung durch die Stadtkasse in der Hasper Zeitung, der Hagener Zeitung und dem Westfälischen Tageblatt aufgerufen werden. Haspe, den 1. Dez. 1918. Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Printed in green and black on light paper, the reverse is divided into two distinct vignette panels. The left panel presents a bust portrait of Friedrich Harkort in fine black line engraving, captioned "Der alte Harkort" at upper left, with the green numeral "10" at lower left and centre; the right panel shows a detailed architectural view of a multi-storey half-timbered manor house set among trees, with the green numeral "10" repeated at its lower corners. A quotation in Gothic script runs across the full width of the bottom margin: "Das Leben gilt nichts ohne die Treue! Fr. Harkort". |
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Haspe was an independent industrial town in the Ruhr, centered on ironworks, before being absorbed into Hagen in 1929. This note is Notgeld — emergency municipal currency issued during the acute coin shortage of the First World War's final year, when the Reich's metal coinage had effectively disappeared from everyday commerce.
At the 10 Mark denomination, this sits at the upper end of practical Notgeld values for a town of Haspe's size. Most municipal issues of this period clustered around 50 Pfennig to 5 Mark; a 10 Mark piece suggests local industrial payroll pressure was a real driver behind the issue.