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10 Pfennig Creditbank
| Issuer | Creditbank zu Hann. Münden, Eingetragene Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftung |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Gutschein der Creditbank zu Hann. Münden Eingetr. Genossenschaft m. beschr. Haftung Hann. Münden am 1. Juli 1921. Dieser Gutschein hat Gültigkeit bis zum 31. März 1922. |
| Reverse description | Grey-green note with a dark foliate border at top and bottom. At left, a baroque allegorical vignette shows a reclining male figure with putti. The central panel carries a lengthy period epitaph inscription in Fraktur script commemorating Johann Andreas Eisenbart, Königl. Großbritann. und Churfürstl. Braunschweig. privilegierter Landarzt, born in Magdeburg anno 1661 and died aged 66 years. The denomination "10 Pfg" appears in Gothic numerals at each corner, and the printer's imprint "Franz Scherrer, Hannover" is at the lower right. |
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The Creditbank zu Hann. Münden was one of thousands of cooperative credit institutions that resorted to issuing small-denomination emergency currency during Germany's notgeld crisis of 1921, when chronic coin shortages made everyday transactions genuinely difficult. Registered under the limited cooperative liability structure — the "eGmbH" designation — it had no special authority to issue money, yet did so alongside countless other local bodies simply because the Reichsbank could not supply enough small change.
Franz Scherrer in Hannover handled a large volume of provincial notgeld printing during this period. The DeNG reference places this within a tightly catalogued local series.