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10 Pfennig Gewerbeverein
| Issuer | Gewerbeverein Prüm e.V. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 85 × 55 mm |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink and dark blue reverse dominated by a finely detailed vignette of a busy livestock market day in Prüm, with large flocks of sheep and cattle filling the town square, attended by numerous figures in period dress, against a backdrop of multi-storey townhouses including the 'Hotel Goldner Stern' visible at right. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each corner within circular guilloche ornaments, and a decorative wave-pattern border frames the entire composition. The caption 'MARKTTAG IN PRÜM' is inscribed in the lower border panel. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 10 10 10 MARKTTAG IN PRÜM Hotel goldner Stern |
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Prüm is a small town in the Eifel region of western Germany, and the Gewerbeverein — a local merchants' and tradesmen's association — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Municipal and commercial Notgeld of this type filled a genuine gap: Reichsbank coins had largely vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and everyday retail transactions were grinding to a halt without low-denomination exchange currency.
The issuer here is not a bank or civic authority but a private trade guild, which was legally permissible under the inflationary emergency provisions of the period. Redemption was the guild's own obligation.