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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Stavenhagen (City of Stavenhagen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and orange, with a central white cartouche containing a Low German verse in gothic Blackletter script attributed to Fritz Reuter. Flanking the cartouche on both sides are stylised decorative trees with foliage rendered in a woodcut manner against an orange ground. Along the lower margin, the denomination ZEHN PFENNIG appears in bold letterpress within an orange panel, with a validity inscription and the issuing authority below. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Stavenhagen is a small Mecklenburg town now remembered mainly as the birthplace of Fritz Reuter, the Low German dialect writer. This note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany in 1921, when chronic coin shortages — driven by metal hoarding and postwar economic disruption — forced even minor localities to print their own fractional paper. Thousands of issuing authorities did the same, which makes attribution and catalog numbering genuinely complex for this series.
The watermark is worth noting: at this denomination and from an issuer this small, a security feature of any kind is not a given.