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10 Pfennig Hamfelde in Lauenburg
| Issuer | Gut Hamfelde (estate), Herzogtum Lauenburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1923 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUT HAMFELDE Notwechselgeld 10 10 PFENNIG HERZOGTUM LAUENBURG |
| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown by letterpress on cream stock within a double red rectangular border, the reverse is divided into three vertical panels. The central panel carries the heraldic shield of the Duchy of Lauenburg — a horse's head in profile within a bordered escutcheon surmounted by a ducal crown. The right panel bears the validity inscription in Gothic Fraktur script noting the note is valid until 31 December 1923, while the left panel states in Fraktur that only untorn notes will be redeemed. |
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Gut Hamfelde is a landed estate in Holstein, and like hundreds of similar private agricultural enterprises during the hyperinflation of 1923, it issued its own emergency scrip to pay workers and conduct small transactions when Reichsbank notes became functionally worthless before they could be spent. Estate-issued notgeld of this type occupies a peculiar legal grey zone — it was neither sanctioned nor formally prohibited, simply tolerated out of necessity.
Lauenburg district scrip from private Güter is among the less-documented notgeld categories, and provenance tracing individual estate issues is difficult. Very few saw wide circulation beyond the immediate agricultural community.