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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Badeverwaltung Ostseebad Arendsee |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black, yellow, and blue on cream paper with a bold decorative border. At the top, the denomination '10' appears in a large yellow disc flanked by the word 'PFENNIG' in stylized yellow lettering on either side. The central vignette, rendered in detailed line art, shows a woman with a parasol standing in shallow water alongside a man seated in a rowing boat, evoking the leisure character of the Baltic resort. Below the vignette a yellow-bordered blue panel carries the inscription 'REUTER GELD', with 'OSTSEEBAD ARENDSEE.' in bold black lettering beneath. Four five-pointed stars accent the lower corners, and the artist's name 'EGON TSCHIRCH' appears in the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | PFENNIG 10 PFENNIG REUTER GELD OSTSEEBAD ARENDSEE. |
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Arendsee — now Kühlungsborn — was a small Baltic resort town on the Mecklenburg coast, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in 1922, its local bath administration issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Reichsbank could no longer supply adequate small change during the hyperinflationary spiral. The Badeverwaltung, responsible for running the beach facilities and spa infrastructure, had both the institutional standing and the pressing practical need to authorize such notes for local transactions.
Egon Tschirch was a Rostock-born painter and graphic artist with strong regional ties; his involvement gives this particular Notgeld a degree of artistic intentionality unusual even within a genre that frequently recruited local talent.