10 Pfennig

Lingen's wartime Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute money — was a direct response to the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation during the First World War. As the German public hoarded copper and nickel, municipalities across the Reich scrambled to fill the gap with locally issued paper Notgeld. Adolf Forker in Leipzig handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions, producing notes for dozens of towns simultaneously.

Lingen, a small administrative centre on the Ems in Lower Saxony, had no printing infrastructure of its own — Leipzig was the practical choice.