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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Landes-Hauptstadt Neustrelitz |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Oh, junge Dag, oh, Morgensunn, Schin' ok in't Minschenhart herin! Wat düster west, mak hell un klor, Un warm mak d'rin, wat kolt is west! Gültig im Geldverkehr innerhalb des Stadtgebietes bis zum 31. Januar 1922. Rat der Landes-Hauptstadt Neustrelitz. Bürgermeister Stadtrat |
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| Reverse lettering | Landeshauptstadt Neustrelitz 10 PF. Reutergeld 10 PF. |
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Neustrelitz was the former capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a state that had ceased to exist in 1918 when the last Grand Duke abdicated. By 1921, the city council — the Rat der Landes-Hauptstadt — was still using the old honorific "Landes-Hauptstadt" in its official title despite the duchy it once headed being long dissolved. The note's issuing authority is thus a small bureaucratic anachronism, a municipal body clinging to a defunct constitutional status.
This is Notgeld, issued to address the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that plagued Germany's early Weimar years. Neustrelitz produced several such pieces; survival rates vary considerably across the series.