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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstand Dargun (Municipality of Dargun) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Lilac-grey note with a vignette of five wild ducks in flight rendered in dark green and ochre-yellow, arranged diagonally across the upper left portion of the note. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large white figures within a white circle at centre, with 'PFENNIG' in bold dark green letterpress below. Two lines of Low German verse in Kurrent script occupy the middle register, followed by the validity and issuer inscription in capital letters, with two manuscript facsimile signatures at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 PFENNIG HEUTEGELD DARGUN |
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Dargun is a small town in Mecklenburg whose municipal government, like hundreds of others across Germany, was forced into emergency currency production during the Kleingeldnot — the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. Coins had been hoarded or melted, and the Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand for low denominations. Local Gemeinde administrations filled the gap with Notgeld, issuing their own fractional paper under no central authorization beyond practical necessity.
The Gemeinde-Vorstand series of 1921 falls into the later wave of municipal Notgeld, by which point many issues had become semi-commemorative collector fodder. Whether Dargun's 10 Pfennig circulated genuinely or was printed primarily for the collector trade is worth establishing before assigning too much circulation significance to any given example.