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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Melle (City of Melle) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Gra#M27.4a |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Pfennig Stadt Melle. Gutschein über zehn Pfennig. Der Magistrat. Melle, 18. Oktober 1918. F. E. Haag in Melle |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein ist zum Verkehr mit der Stadtverwaltung Melle bestimmt. Die städtischen Kassen zu Melle nehmen ihn jederzeit in Zahlung. SIGILLUM MELLENSE 1838 |
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Melle's 10 Pfennig Notgeld from 1918 belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency issued across Germany as wartime coin shortages stripped small denominations from circulation almost entirely. The Reichsbank's inability to keep low-value coinage in public hands forced hundreds of towns — Melle among them — to authorize their own scrip, printed locally and accepted only within the issuing municipality.
F. E. Haag was a local printing house, not a security printer, which shows in the relatively simple typographic execution typical of Melle's issues. The Graeger reference M27.4a suggests multiple variants exist within this series, distinguished by minor printing differences.