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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Tangermünde |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 PFENNIG Einst hat man in Tangermünde den süffigen 'Kuhschwanz' gebraut; doch was wir als Kriegsbier getrunken, davor graut Allen heute noch! Ungültig 3 Monate nach Aufruf in den hiesigen Zeitungen. Tangermünde d: 14.1921 Der Magistrat JUNGFER LORENZ TANGERMÜNDE LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT |
| Reverse description | Grey and red letterpress note centred on a vignette of the Neustädter Tor (Roßfurt gate), a tall medieval brick tower. Heraldic eagles on white shields flank the vignette; 'TANGERMÜNDE' in gothic lettering on a ribbon banner at top, denomination '10' in red at lower corners. |
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Tangermünde is a small town on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, and this 10 Pfennig notgeld from 1921 is a product of the post-WWI small-change famine that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency. By 1921 the acute coin shortage had eased in larger cities, but smaller towns were still running short of low-denomination metal, and the Magistrat issued accordingly.
Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a regional printer — not one of the major notgeld houses — which kept production local and costs down. Notgeld from minor municipal printers like Koch tends to survive in smaller quantities than the mass-produced collector series issued by larger cities.