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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Vlotho (City Treasury of Vlotho) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Green-ground notgeld with a central vignette of the Vlotho municipal coat of arms — a red shield bearing two white chevrons above a white lily plant on red — flanked on either side by black stylised tulip motifs on a dark scroll underprint. The denomination numeral '10' appears in red within two dotted white roundels at lower left and right, while the inscription 'Stadt an der Vlotho Weser' is set in bold Fraktur letterpress across the centre. A two-line poetic verse in dark red Kurrent script runs across the top, and a second verse line continues along the lower margin, with the designer's imprint 'E. Supan Detmold' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Stadtkasse löst diesen Gutschein ein. Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung 10 Gutschein über zehn Pfennige 10 Vlotho a. d. Weser im April 1921 Der Amtmann: Der Gem: Vorsthr: |
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Vlotho is a small town on the Weser river in the Lippe district, and this 1921 Notgeld issue is typical of the thousands of municipal emergency notes printed across Germany and Austria during the postwar coin shortage. What distinguishes this particular piece from the broader flood of Kleingeldscheine is the involvement of Gebrüder Jänecke, a Hannover firm with genuine printing credentials — they were established lithographers and later merged to form Jänecke & Schneemann, a name that appears on considerably more ambitious work.
Designer E. Supan is credited from Detmold, the Lippe-Detmold regional capital roughly 40 km east of Vlotho — a local commission, not a metropolitan one.