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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hagenow (City of Hagenow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Hagenow Rathaus (town hall) rendered in polychrome letterpress, framed by oak-leaf branches and flanked at left and right by dark rectangular panels bearing the large green numeral '10' with 'Pf.' below. A decorative scroll ribbon across the lower centre carries a four-line Low German verse in Gothic script. The upper legend reads 'Notgeld, Stadt Hagenow' in bold black lettering, while the lower section records the issue date 'Hagenow, in Oktober 1921', a serial number at lower left, and two manuscript facsimile signatures above the designations 'Dei Rat' and 'Dei Stadtspreker'. |
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| Reverse description | Pastoral landscape vignette executed in polychrome letterpress, with a group of deer at left and cattle grazing at right beside a meandering stream, beneath a canopy of oak trees. At centre top, the municipal coat of arms of Hagenow — a red shield bearing the bust of a bishop in mitre — is superimposed over the tree trunk. Two dark hexagonal panels at lower left and right carry the green denomination '10 Pf.' A decorative scroll in the lower centre bears the inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Hagenow' in Gothic script, with a validity notice and the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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Hagenow is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and its 1921 notgeld issue is typical of the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany during the inflation crisis following the First World War. The Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was the court printer for the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and handled notgeld commissions for several regional municipalities during this period — a practical choice for smaller towns without connections to the major Leipzig or Berlin printing houses.
Designer O. Menzel is otherwise unattributed in the major notgeld literature; the commission was almost certainly a local arrangement. The dual signatures of Dr. Sturm and G. Müchstädt follow the standard municipal authorization format of the period.