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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Cleve (City of Kleve) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on light green paper, the obverse presents a typeset design entirely in black letterpress within a double-ruled rectangular border edged with a continuous circle-link ornamental frame. The denomination numeral "10" is set large and bold at centre, flanked on each side by groups of horizontal ruling lines, with the denomination legend "Pfennig" in Gothic script below. The upper inscription reads "Gutschein über" and the lower portion carries the issuing authority "Notgeld der Stadt Cleve" above the date "25. Dezember 1920." |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 10 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Cleve 25. Dezember 1920. |
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Kleve's 1920 Pfennig notgeld was a direct response to the chronic shortage of small-denomination coins that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar years — the Reichsbank simply could not mint subsidiary coinage fast enough to keep retail trade functioning. Hundreds of German municipalities issued their own paper scrip under emergency authorization, and Kleve was among the smaller Rhenish towns that did so.
The Rhine region's situation was further complicated by Allied occupation following the Armistice; Kleve sat within the occupied zone under British administration, making the civic authority's decision to issue local currency a quietly pointed assertion of municipal autonomy.