10 Pfennig

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.