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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Purple and orange letterpress design on paper, enclosed within a thin rule border, with a central vignette rendered in bold crosshatched linework presenting three figures in folk costume — one beating a circular drum, accompanied by a woman and a child — against the purple ground. An orange cartouche at lower left bears the denomination numeral '10' with the abbreviation 'Pf.' in black, while bold Gothic lettering along the lower margin identifies the series as Reutergeld and names the issuing town. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Pf. REUTERGELD GRABOW |
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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.