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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Herne (City of Herne) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a full-length armoured knight standing on a plinth with sword in hand, flanked by swirling guilloche underprint and bold denomination numerals '10 Pf' on each side. The city coat of arms of Herne, with a mural crown and floral wreath, is positioned at the lower centre. A dark header band at the top carries the issuer inscription in Gothic blackletter script, with a lower panel divided into a text box at left stating the redemption obligation dated 1 July 1921 and a serial number box at right bearing the magistrate's manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | NORD-SEE Rhein Emden Dortmund Rhein-Herne-Kanal Duisburg Herne Dortmund 10 Pfg. 10 Pfennig |
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Herne's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point a well-organized affair, with many towns commissioning locally printed small denominations specifically because the Reichsbank could not keep low-value coinage in circulation fast enough to meet postwar demand. The Ruhr industrial towns were particularly aggressive issuers; Herne's collieries were running at capacity, and workers needed something to make change with at the company stores and local merchants.
Printed locally rather than by one of the specialist Notgeld printers like Giesecke & Devrient, which kept costs down but also kept quality modest.