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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Ostseebad Müritz |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ist die Kindheit ein fröhliches, liebliches Wellengewimmel, von Gottes Sonne vergoldet, so ist die Erinnerung daran der glänzende Streif den das durch die Nacht fortarbeitende Schiff zurücklässt. 10 PFENNIG 10 OSTSEEBAD MÜRITZ GÜLTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DES ORTSGEBIETES BIS 28.2.22. DIE BADEVERWALTUNG |
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| Reverse lettering | REUTER GELD 10 PFENNIG 10 OSTSEEBAD MÜRITZ |
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Ostseebad Müritz was a Baltic coastal resort town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, it issued emergency small-denomination notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of coin driven by hyperinflation stripping metal currency from circulation faster than the Reichsbank could respond. Egon Tschirch, a Stralsund-born painter with genuine regional standing, was a deliberate choice: resort towns issuing notgeld frequently commissioned local artists as a point of civic pride, and the resulting notes were aggressively collected as souvenirs even at the time of issue.
That dual purpose — functional emergency currency and collectible artifact — means many Müritz issues survived in near-unissued condition, pulled from circulation immediately by tourists.