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| Issuer | Stadt Kröpelin (City of Kröpelin) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue, yellow, and pink on white paper, with a yellow outer border and a pink inner frame. A large banner scroll at the top bears the inscription 'REUTERGELD' in bold blue letters, flanked by two pink putti figures. At the centre, a circular medallion in blue and yellow contains the municipal coat of arms of Kröpelin, displaying a lion passant beneath a triangular shield motif. The denomination '10 PF.' is rendered in large yellow numerals with pink hatching at the base, flanked by the inscriptions 'STADT' and 'KRÖPELIN' in pink Fraktur lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | REUTERGELD 10 PF. STADT KRÖPELIN |
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Kröpelin is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921–1923, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — substitute small change — as the Reichsbank failed to keep low-denomination coin in circulation fast enough to keep pace with accelerating inflation. By 1922 the problem was severe enough that towns with fewer than five thousand inhabitants were printing their own emergency paper. Kröpelin was among the smaller issuers, which makes surviving examples proportionally harder to find than Notgeld from larger cities.