10 Pfennig

Bad Kleinen is a small railway junction town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These small-denomination pieces were printed locally or by regional printers in enormous variety, often serving as much as collectibles-by-design as genuine circulating currency. The 10 Pfennig denomination sits at the lower edge of what towns typically bothered to issue, where the administrative cost of printing almost matched the face value.