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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Röbel (City of Röbel) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and grey-blue letterpress vignette showing two seated men in workers' caps facing each other across a barrel, raising glasses in conversation; a Low German dialect verse of six lines is printed below the central scene. The denomination '10 PFENNIG' is set in large block lettering across the top. Validity text and the issuing authority 'DER RAT DER STADT RÖBEL' appear in the lower margin, accompanied by a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 PFENNIG BEUTERGELD RÖBEL |
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Röbel is a small market town on the Müritz in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to fill the void left by a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coins. Hyperinflation was already destroying the Reichsmark's purchasing power, but this note belongs to the earlier "series" Notgeld phase, when towns issued collectible small notes partly as a revenue scheme; local authorities discovered that philatelists and collectors would buy and hold sets without ever redeeming them.
The 76 × 55 mm format is characteristic of the smaller municipal issues produced on commercial job presses throughout northern Germany during this period.