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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Wunstorf, City of |
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| Year | 1921-1922 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Wunstorf city crest within a circular frame, showing a fortified gate with a lion passant above, printed in red on a stippled ground. The denomination '10 PFENNIG' appears in bold black numerals in panels to the left and right of the central vignette. Signature lines for the Magistrat and Bürgervorsteher Kollegium appear at the lower left and lower right respectively, with the validity date and printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lehrerseminar (Translation: Teacher's Seminary) |
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Wunstorf's 10 Pfennig Kleingeldschein belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency money that German towns were forced to produce as coin shortages became unmanageable in the early 1920s. Rampant hoarding of metal coinage — driven by inflation and raw material speculation — pushed responsibility for small-denomination currency down to the municipal level, leaving cities and towns to negotiate directly with regional printers.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was among the busier regional suppliers of this type, handling orders from dozens of Lower Saxon municipalities during the same period. The watermarked paper distinguishes this from the cruder cardboard issues some smaller communes resorted to when proper printing stock ran short.