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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Goldberg in Mecklenburg, City of |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a woodcut-style vignette of a multi-storey town building with arched entrance, flanked by the denomination numeral '10' on both sides at the top in bold letterpress. Below the vignette, a verse inscription in Gothic script runs across the central field. A facsimile signature appears in the lower right corner, with the issuing authority's text in small typeface at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 PFENNIG 10 REUTERGELD GOLDBERG |
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Goldberg is a small market town in Mecklenburg with a population that barely exceeded a few thousand even in the early twentieth century — which makes its issuance of notgeld a reminder of just how granular Germany's emergency currency proliferation became after 1914. Thousands of municipalities, no matter how minor, printed their own small-denomination notes when coin shortages made everyday transactions impossible.
The DeNG reference places this within the first series of Goldberg notgeld. Paper notgeld at this denomination was typically short-lived in circulation, often redeemed or simply discarded once the immediate coin shortage eased.