Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lingen (Magistrat) |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal notgeld on pale pink-tinted paper with a fine confetti-pattern guilloche underprint throughout. To the left, a vignette within a decorative frame presents the municipal coat of arms of Lingen, flanked by two rampant lions supporting a crowned shield. The denomination '10 Pfg.' appears in bold at upper left and upper right, with the issuer name 'Stadt Lingen' in large letterpress type across the upper centre, below which the legend 'Gutschein über zehn Pfennig' is printed. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, attributed respectively to Der Magistrat and das Bürgervorsteher Kollegium. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse bearing a block of Fraktur-script text in black letterpress, arranged in five centred lines, setting out the conditions of validity and redemption of the voucher. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold type at lower left and lower right, serving as corner markers. |
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Lingen an der Ems was a small Westphalian market town, and its magistrate issued emergency paper — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, when the imperial government progressively withdrew copper and nickel coinage for war materials. Municipal authorities across the country filled the gap themselves, with no standardized format and wildly varying quality of issue.
The extreme elongation of this note is characteristic of certain lower Saxony municipal issues, where the narrow strip format was chosen partly to discourage counterfeiting by making home reproduction awkward.