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| Issuer | Nienhagen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | De Heven lacht so blag un rein, As künn kein Falschheit mehr geschehn OSTSEEBAD NIENHAGEN 10 GÜLTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DES ORTSGEBIETES BIS 28.2.1922 DIE BADEVERWALTUNG = Westendorf, Saft, Wünerf, T. Hillmann |
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| Reverse lettering | REUTER GELD ZEHN PFENNIG 10 PF OSTSEEBAD NIENHAGEN EGON TSCHIRCH |
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Nienhagen is a small village in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute — as the inflationary spiral made official coinage disappear from circulation almost entirely. Hoarding and melting meant coins of this denomination had effectively ceased to function as currency by mid-1922.
Egon Tschirch was a Güstrow-based painter and graphic artist with a strong regional following, and his involvement in local Notgeld design was not unusual — many municipalities in Mecklenburg commissioned artists of genuine standing rather than defaulting to commercial printers' stock imagery. The DeNG reference subdivides this issue across three known variants.