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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bentheim (City of Bentheim) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 54 × 38 mm |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink and black Notgeld note printed in a woodcut-style technique. A central vignette presents a panoramic view of Bentheim's civic buildings and bath house, rendered in bold linear illustration. At the upper centre, a ribbon cartouche bears the town name 'BENTHEIM' divided across two lines, flanked to the right by the municipal arms (a bunch of grapes on a shield) and the large denomination numeral '10 PF'; the four border margins carry the legal tender text in rotated orientation, with a facsimile signature of Der Magistrat and an artist's monogram 'WT' at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | DREI DINGE GIBT ES HIERZULAND DURCH WELCHE BENTHEIM WEITBEKANNT DER HERRGOTT VON BENTHEIM WOHL TAUSEND JAHR ALT BAD BENTHEIM IM HERR- LICHEN EICHENWALD DIE BENTHEIMER MOPPEN DES RUHMES WERT ALS SCHMACKHAFT GEBÄCK BELIEBT UND BEGEHRT |
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Bentheim issued this small-denomination Notgeld in 1921, well into the transitional phase between the emergency municipal currency scrambles of 1918–19 and the hyperinflationary collapse that would render all such issues worthless by 1923. By 1921, Notgeld had shifted from genuine necessity to something closer to a collector-driven cottage industry — many German towns printed attractive small notes knowing philatelists would absorb them before they ever reached a cash register.
Whether Bentheim's issue was purely functional or partly speculative is difficult to say. The DeNG reference places it within a four-variant series, suggesting deliberate sequencing rather than ad hoc printing.