Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Mirow i. M. |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Lavender and salmon-pink Notgeld note with a decorative ruled border. A central oval vignette in salmon tone renders a lakeside landscape with buildings, trees, and reed-fringed foreshore in fine letterpress line work; the denomination numerals '10' with 'PF.' appear in bold at left and right flanking the vignette. Above the vignette a rectangular text panel carries a Low German quotation from Fritz Reuter, while a lower panel bears the validity inscription and the issuing authority with a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT MIROW i. M. 10 REUTERGELD PFENNIG 10 |
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Mirow, a small town in Mecklenburg, was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own fractional emergency currency during the Kleingeldmangel — the coin shortage that paralyzed retail trade from 1916 onward. The Rat der Stadt, the town council itself, served as the issuing authority, a purely administrative arrangement typical of Notgeld at this scale, where no banking infrastructure existed to take on the role.
Mirow is better known as the birthplace of Queen Charlotte, consort of George III — a biographical footnote that occasionally surfaces in the town's later decorative Notgeld issues but carries no bearing on the utilitarian wartime pieces.