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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Melle (City of Melle) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in pink and black on white paper, the obverse is framed by an elaborate Art Nouveau-style border of swirling foliate and wave motifs. In Gothic (Fraktur) script, 'Stadt' appears at upper left and 'Melle' at upper right, flanking the central text panel which reads 'Gutschein über zehn Pfennig' above the date 'Melle, 24. Februar 1920.' and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat'. Bold numeral '10' denominators appear at lower left and right, with two manuscript signatures below the authority line. |
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| Reverse lettering | SIGILLUM MELLENSE 1838 Dieser Gutschein ist zum Verkehr mit der Stadtverwaltung Melle bestimmt. Die städtischen Kassen zu Melle nehmen ihn jederzeit in Zahlung. F.E. HAAG IN MELLE |
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Melle's 1920 Notgeld issue is entirely local in character — printed by F. E. Haag, a commercial printer based in the same town, for a municipality then in the administrative district of Osnabrück. This was common practice during the Kleingeldnotgeld wave of 1919–1921, when the postwar coin shortage pushed hundreds of German towns to commission their own small-denomination emergency notes from whatever press happened to be nearby.
F. E. Haag was not a specialist banknote printer, which is exactly what the finished product reflects.