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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ribnitz (City of Ribnitz) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 15 February 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER SCHEIN GILT NUR IM INNEREN STADTVERKEHR BIS ZUM 15. FEB. 1922 DER RAT DER STADT RIBNITZ Denn segg em, ick hadd seggt, Du hadd'st seggt, Din Grotmoder hadd Di vertellt, wen he säd, wat hei säd, füllst Du em seggen, hadd ick seggt, hei süll nich Schapskopp tau Di seggen. |
| Reverse description | Red and grey-blue bicolour landscape vignette in a bold woodcut style, showing a wooded riverside scene with tall trees framing the composition; a horse-drawn yellow carriage travels along a road in the middle distance, with hills and cloudy sky beyond. The denomination numeral '10' appears at lower left, with the inscriptions 'REUTERGELD' and 'RIBNITZ' in bold block lettering at lower right within a plain panel. |
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Ribnitz, a small Mecklenburg town on the Saaler Bodden, issued this note during Germany's accelerating inflationary spiral of 1922 — before hyperinflation fully consumed the currency later that year and rendered such Kleingeldersatz notes redundant almost immediately. Municipal and commercial issuers across Germany flooded local circulation with low-denomination emergency paper because Reichsbank coinage had effectively vanished from everyday trade, hoarded or melted as metal values outpaced face values.
The DeNG reference places this within the broader Deutsches Notgeld cataloguing framework. Ribnitz issues from this period are not among the heavily collected regional series, which often means surviving examples passed through genuine local circulation rather than being printer's remainders sold to collectors.