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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Malchow (City of Malchow) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Cream-toned note printed in brown and lilac, centred on a landscape vignette within a ruled rectangular frame, depicting a sailboat on a calm river or lake with tall reeds in the foreground and billowing clouds above. Above the vignette, a two-line Low German verse in Gothic script runs across the full width of the note. Below the vignette, the denomination '10' and the inscription 'REUTERGELD DER STADT MALCHOW' are set in large bold Gothic lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | Malchow is schön. Hett Müller un Seen, Hett allens in de Welt, Blot kein Lüttgeld. 10 REUTERGELD DER STADT MALCHOW |
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Malchow is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921–1923, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of low-denomination coins from circulation. Rampant hoarding and metal shortages had stripped everyday commerce of its working change, and local authorities stepped in with printed paper to keep market stalls and shopkeepers functional.
The DeNG reference places this within the third subtype of the Malchow series, suggesting at least minor typographic or color variants exist across the issue — worth checking against the other suffixed listings before cataloging multiples.