Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Badeverwaltung Ostseebad Graal |
|---|---|
| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | 31 May 1922 |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Helle Luft un deepe Gran bringen Hoch un Niedrig tosam OSTSEEBAD GRAAL GÜLTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DES ORTSGEBIETS BIS 31. 5. 1922 DIE BADEVERWALTUNG: 10 PF |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue, black, and yellow, with a bold yellow border framing the entire composition. The legend REUTER GELD is set in large decorative lettering across the top, rendered in a hand-drawn Art Nouveau style. The central vignette shows a sketched harbour scene with sailing vessels, a pier, and beach chairs in the foreground, executed in loose pen-and-ink linework. The denomination '10 PF' appears in yellow numerals within guilloche-patterned cartouches at lower left and right, with OSTSEEBAD GRAAL inscribed in blue block lettering at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Graal was a small Baltic coastal resort in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, its Badeverwaltung — the spa and bathing administration — issued its own emergency small change notes when coin shortages made everyday transactions impossible. The hyperinflationary spiral that year had driven metal coinage out of circulation almost entirely, leaving local authorities, businesses, and associations to fill the gap with Notgeld printed in quantities that were often more ambitious than the local economy could absorb.
Graal later merged with the neighboring resort of Müritz in 1938 to form Graal-Müritz. Notes from the original Badeverwaltung issue are relatively scarce simply because the issuing body was small and the print runs reflected that.