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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neumünster, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Pfenn |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of a two-storey Baroque manor house flanked by tall trees, rendered in a flat illustrative style in dark blue and ochre tones against the light grey ground. A small artist's signature 'HROSS' is visible in the lower right of the vignette. Beneath the building, a banner inscription reads '1870 Neumünster 1920', commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the town. |
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Neumünster's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money printed across Germany during the hyperinflationary chaos that followed defeat in the First World War. Small denominations like this were a practical response to the chronic shortage of official coin and low-value currency — the Reichsbank simply could not keep up with demand at the local level.
Paper issues from this period survive in wildly uneven numbers. Neumünster was a textile and industrial town with modest political profile, which means its Notgeld attracted less collector speculation at the time than the elaborate artistic series from more prominent cities — a fact that cuts both ways for rarity today.