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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Feldberg (City Council of Feldberg in Mecklenburg) |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on pale pink paper, the obverse carries a central text panel in Gothic Kurrent script presenting two stanzas of verse, flanked by tall vertical vignettes of stylized reeds or marsh grasses, with the denomination '10 Pf.' in bold type at the upper left and right corners. Below the verse panel, a horizontal letterpress landscape vignette renders a tranquil lakeside scene with trees and low terrain. A ruled border at the foot encloses the validity inscription and the issuing authority's signature. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on a salmon-orange ground with a light blue-grey border, the reverse centres on a panoramic elevated line-engraving of Feldberg in Mecklenburg, its church spire rising above rooftops against a backdrop of wooded hills and a distant lake. The denomination '10 PFENNIG 10' is set in bold block capitals across the top margin, while the lower margin carries the inscriptions 'REUTERGELD DER STADT' and 'FELDBERG i.M.' in large display lettering. |
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Feldberg in Mecklenburg was a small market town — population well under five thousand at the time — and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities it resorted to printing its own Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward. The Reichsbank simply could not keep low-denomination coin in circulation; metal had other uses. Local councils became, by necessity, their own monetary authorities.
These small paper issues from minor Mecklenburg towns tend to survive in quantity because collectors hoarded them from the moment the Notgeld craze took hold after 1918. Circulated examples from the genuine shortage period are often harder to find than pristine collector issues printed afterward.