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10 Pfennig Molkerei-Genossenschaft
| Issuer | Molkerei-Genossenschaft Bevensen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Molkerei-Genossenschaft Bevensen 10 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921 |
| Reverse description | Salmon-pink reverse, printed in dark brown on plain paper stock, bearing a central woodcut-style vignette of a crowned Madonna and Child enthroned between two small chapel towers surmounted by crosses, referencing the town's heraldic or devotional imagery. A serial number is printed in bold numerals below the vignette. No additional inscriptions appear on this face. |
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A dairy cooperative issuing its own emergency currency is not unusual for 1921 Germany — the Notgeld phenomenon had by then spread well beyond municipal authorities into private businesses, cooperatives, and even individual farms struggling to make change amid chronic coin shortages. What is less common is a dairy cooperative small enough to require notes this diminutive, suggesting Bevensen's operation served a tight local catchment rather than a regional network.
Bad Bevensen, a small spa town in Lower Saxony, produced a notable volume of issuer-specific Notgeld from various local institutions during 1920–1921.