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10 Pfennig - Heiligenhafen
| Issuer | Heiligenhafen, City of |
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| Year | 1917-1923 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE ★ HEILIGENHAFEN ★ |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold, large numeral '10' occupying the majority of the plain field, rendered in a simple serif-style typeface. The design is unadorned save for a continuous beaded border running along the inner periphery of the octagonal flan, framing the denomination in a clean, functional manner typical of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the World War I era. No additional legends, date, or decorative elements appear on this face. |
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Heiligenhafen is a small Baltic port town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the First World War, it was forced into emergency coinage — Notgeld — when the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from the money supply entirely. Iron was the fallback. The date range spanning into 1923 suggests this type saw continued use or reissuance into the hyperinflationary period, when municipal scrip of any kind retained more practical utility than paper denominations that lost value by the hour.