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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf, Municipality of |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain ochre-yellow note with the municipality name 'Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf' in large Gothic blackletter script across the top. The central vignette area carries the denomination '10 Pfennig' in bold upright type, flanked by two columns of German text declaring that local tradespeople accept the note at full value in cash payment. At the bottom, a manuscript signature line reads 'DIE GEWERBETREIBENDEN: I.A.' followed by two handwritten signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein No Dieser Kleingeldschein hat 10 Pfg. Wert und bis zum 31. Dez. 1922 Gültigkeit. 10 Pfennig Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf Nach besonderer Bekanntmachung kann die Gültigkeit früher aufgehoben werden. POGGENDORF |
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Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf was a small industrial municipality on the western shore of Kiel Fjord — home to shipyards and metalworks — that merged into the city of Kiel in 1924. Like hundreds of German communes during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1917–1921, it issued its own low-denomination Notgeld when coins effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded by a public that no longer trusted the currency's stability. The 10 Pfennig denomination was the workhorse of local emergency scrip, used for tram fares, small market transactions, and change at factory canteens.
Municipal issues from this region are frequently underdated in collector literature because many were printed by small local shops without recorded print runs.