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10 Pfennig J. Bollow
| Issuer | J. Bollow, Hamburg |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-toned paper note of the most austere typographic style, entirely lacking pictorial vignettes or ornamental underprint. The text is set in a bold serif letterpress within a simple double-rule rectangular border, with the issuer's name and address in the upper portion and the large denomination numeral and abbreviation occupying the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on cream fibrous paper, with visible multicolored textile fibers embedded throughout the stock; no text, vignette, or border of any kind. |
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J. Bollow was a Hamburg-based merchant or tradesman who issued this private emergency note — a Notgeld in function if not always in name — to substitute for the small coinage that routinely vanished from circulation during periods of monetary stress. These merchant-issued scrips were legally tolerated in Germany at various points precisely because official low-denomination coin supply repeatedly failed to meet everyday transactional demand. At 33 × 23 mm, this is among the smallest paper instruments a private issuer would bother producing. No state printer was involved; these were typically produced locally, often by the issuer's own stationer.