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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Recklinghausen (City of Recklinghausen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 10 Gutschein über Pfennig No. 058424 VI. Ausgabe Dieser Gutschein wird von der Stadhauptkasse Recklinghausen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den hiesigen Tageszeitungen. Die Stadt Recklinghausen haftet für die Einlösung. Recklinghausen, den 1. September 1919 Der Magistrat: |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 |
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Recklinghausen's 1919 notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded the Ruhr following the armistice. The Reichsbank's coin hoarding problem — silver and copper had been systematically pulled from circulation since 1915 — left industrial towns like Recklinghausen functionally unable to make change, forcing the city administration to print its own solution. Tens of thousands of similar municipal pieces appeared across Germany in this period, which makes condition and series completeness the only real differentiators for collectors working this material.