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10 Pfennig Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer zu Osnabrück (Chamber of Commerce) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig Osnabrück den 1. Sept. 1921 Die Handelskammer HANDELSKAMMER ZU OSNABRÜCK |
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| Reverse lettering | Pfg. 10 Pfg. Gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheins zahlt die Handelskammer zu Osnabrück den Betrag von zehn Pfennigen. Die Einlösung erfolgt bei den seitens der Handelskammer beauftragten Banken und Bankfirmen. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung nicht innerhalb der darin bestimmten Frist eingelöst wird. |
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Osnabrück's Chamber of Commerce issued this small-denomination Notgeld in 1921 as Germany's postwar coin shortage dragged well into the early Weimar years. The federal government had repeatedly promised a new coinage but production lagged badly, leaving municipalities and trade bodies to fill the gap themselves — which is why an institution like a Handelskammer, ordinarily a trade regulatory body rather than a financial one, found itself in the business of issuing circulating paper.
Chamber-issued Notgeld from this period tends to surface in better condition than town-issued equivalents, likely because local merchants accepted them selectively and they moved through fewer hands.