10 Pfennig

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.