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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hamm (Westfalen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red and black letterpress notgeld on white paper. The central panel carries the denomination in large Fraktur script 'Zehn Pfennig' over a validity notice dated Hamm (Westf.) 1. Oktober 1921, signed by the Magistrat with two manuscript signatures beneath the titles Oberbürgermeister and Bürgermeister. The entire composition is framed by a decorative border of four scroll banners bearing humorous local sayings in Gothic lettering, one at each side and one each at top and bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pf. Hammer Keut |
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Hamm issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German municipalities to print their own small-denomination Kleingeld during the acute coin shortage of the early 1920s. The shortage itself was structural — base metal had been hoarded or diverted during the war years, and the Reichsbank had neither the capacity nor the incentive to restock municipal till money fast enough to meet demand.
Locally printed Notgeld from Westphalian industrial towns like Hamm tends to be plainer than the decorative collector-oriented issues flooding the market by 1921. This was functional scrip, not a philatelic product.