10 Pfennig

Woldegk is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that hit Germany from around 1916 onward. The Rat der Stadt Woldegk (town council) was the issuing authority, a typical arrangement for smaller municipalities that lacked the banking infrastructure of larger cities but still needed to keep local commerce moving when metal coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely.

Small-denomination municipal Notgeld of this type was often printed locally on whatever paper stock was available, which accounts for the variation in paper quality and colour saturation seen across surviving examples from this region.