Catalog
10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Parchim (City of Parchim) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-ground note with a bold mauve-and-white lithographic vignette occupying most of the face, showing a man in a nightcap and striped nightshirt leaning out of bed to reach a small stool, rendered in an expressive Art Nouveau woodcut style with strong contour lines and orange accent colour on the hand and slipper. The denomination legend "ZEHN-PFENNIG" is set in large decorative letters across the top of the vignette. At the foot of the note a Low German proverb reads "Dat Besinnen is dat Best bi 'n Minschen" alongside the issuing authority "Der Rat der Stadt Parchim" and validity text "Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis zum 31. Mai 1922", with a manuscript facsimile signature below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 PFENNIG REUTERGELD PARCHIM |
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Parchim's 10 Pfennig Notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency issued across Germany between 1917 and 1921, when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Thousands of German towns issued their own paper, and quality varied wildly — Parchim's issue is among the more modest provincial examples, printed locally rather than commissioned from one of the specialist Notgeld printers like Giesecke & Devrient.
The P#1045.1-1/3 reference indicates three distinct sub-varieties within this single denomination, most likely differentiated by serial number range, date, or minor typographic variation rather than any significant redesign.