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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Penzlin (City of Penzlin) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1055.1-1/3 |
| Obverse description | Brown-toned Notgeld note with a large silhouette vignette of an oak tree in the upper portion, its gnarled branches spreading across the background. The denomination '10' appears in large numerals at centre, followed by 'PFENNIG' in bold letterpress type. Below, a text panel carries a Low German (Plattdeutsch) verse in six lines, followed by the validity inscription and the issuing authority 'Rat der Stadt Penzlin i. M.' with two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on a salmon-orange ground and divided into two zones by a framed arch composition in a Jugendstil-influenced letterpress style. The upper arch encloses a detailed vignette of a historic whitewashed gate-house or town-gate building set among trees and shrubbery, rendered in fine line illustration. Below the vignette, three lines of bold stylised type read 'ZEHN', 'PFENNIG', 'REUTERGELD', and 'PENZLIN', the latter two within a decorative cartouche at the foot of the note. |
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Penzlin is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and its 1922 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany as postwar inflation made official small change effectively disappear from circulation. Stadt Penzlin had no particular monetary infrastructure — the notes were almost certainly printed by a regional commercial printer and authorized by the local magistrate under the broad notgeld provisions that gave German municipalities latitude to issue their own fractional scrip during 1921–1923.
The DeNG reference places this within a tight local series, suggesting Penzlin issued at least a handful of denominations simultaneously rather than expanding the series incrementally as some larger towns did.