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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Grabow an der Elde (City of Grabow an der Elde) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 2#460.1-1/3 |
| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress notgeld on paper, with a central vignette in the upper portion presenting a silhouetted horse-drawn cart attended by several figures, flanked at left by a large outline numeral '10' and at right by a purple decorative floral motif enclosing a labouring figure. The lower half is occupied by a framed panel carrying a Low German dialect inscription in Gothic blackletter script, beneath which the validity clause and issuing authority appear in Roman capitals, concluded by two facsimile signatures with their respective titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Dat is en slichten Kirl, de sin Recht nicht utäuwt. DIESER SCHEIN GILT NUR IM INNEREN STADTVERKEHR BIS ZUM 31. DEZ. 1921 DER RAT DER STADT GRABOW Bürgermeister Stadtsekretär |
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Grabow an der Elde, a small market town on the Elde river in Mecklenburg, issued this note as part of the Kleingeldersatz wave that swept German municipalities in the early 1920s. The national coinage shortage — caused by wartime hoarding and the collapse of the imperial monetary system — forced thousands of local governments to print their own fractional substitutes. By 1921 the practice was so widespread that many towns were issuing purely for the collector trade rather than genuine payment needs, a fact the Reichsbank found increasingly irritating.