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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Seehausen i.A. (City of Seehausen in der Altmark) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green and white letterpress Notgeld printed on plain paper. The upper portion carries the issuer inscription in bold Gothic type above a central vignette of the Seehausen municipal eagle coat of arms, flanked on either side by large numeral '10' denominators above the legend 'PFENNIG'. A lower text panel contains the redemption clause, date 'Seehausen i. d. Altmark, den 5. Februar 1921', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', and two manuscript signatures, with the printer imprint 'ZIMMER & MUNTE, MAGDEBURG' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour pictorial vignette printed in green, ochre, and dark violet, showing a tree-lined avenue receding into the distance beneath an amber sky, rendered in a flat Expressionist style typical of German Notgeld illustration. The denomination '10' appears in the upper-left and upper-right corners within a green header band bearing the place name 'Seehausen i. d. Altmark'. A lower caption panel carries a Low German verse in black letterpress. |
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Seehausen in der Altmark is a small market town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own low-denomination emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for a severe shortage of Reichsbank coins. The metal had never fully returned to circulation after wartime requisitioning, and by 1921 the problem had outlasted most official predictions. Zimmer & Munte in Magdeburg handled a considerable volume of municipal Notgeld commissions across the region during this period.
The signatories Becher and Willeske were local civic officials authorizing the issue — their names carrying legal weight in lieu of a banking institution's guarantee.