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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Grevesmühlen |
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| Designer(s) | Richard Zscheked |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown and blue bicolour Notgeld note with a central rural vignette rendered in silhouette style, showing a thatched-roof farmstead, windmill, trees, and crossed tools against a stippled night sky. Scrolling banners in Fraktur script arc across the upper portion carrying a Low German verse, with the artist's name RICHARD ZSCHEKED inscribed in the upper right corner. The denomination numeral '10' within an oval cartouche and the abbreviation 'Pfg' appear at lower centre, flanked by the issuing authority and validity text. |
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| Reverse lettering | Reutergeld der Stadt 10 Pfg Grevesmühlen |
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Grevesmühlen is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldschein emergency — the acute shortage of small-denomination coin that swept German municipalities during the First World War. Local councils, merchants, and even individual businesses were legally permitted to issue their own fractional paper to keep commerce moving. The Rat der Stadt Grevesmühlen was one of hundreds of civic bodies that took that option.
Richard Zscheked's credit as designer is a relative rarity in Kleingeldschein documentation — most municipal issues of this type went unattributed.