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10 Pfennig Schwedter Kaufmannschaft
| Issuer | Schwedter Kaufmannschaft |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 July 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | Schwedter Kaufmannschaft Gutschein 10 Pfennig im Werte von Gültig bis 1. 7. 1922 Dieser Gutschein wird von sämtlichen Mitgliedern der Schwedter Kaufmannschaft bei allen Einkäufen verrechnet. Bareinlösung findet nicht statt |
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| Reverse lettering | Schwedter Kaufmannschaft Gutschein 10 Pfennig im Werte von Gültig bis 1. 7. 1922 Dieser Gutschein wird von sämtlichen Mitgliedern der Schwedter Kaufmannschaft bei allen Einkäufen verrechnet. Bareinlösung findet nicht statt |
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The Schwedter Kaufmannschaft — the merchants' association of Schwedt an der Oder — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that plagued German commerce in the early 1920s. Municipal and commercial bodies across the country were legally permitted to issue Kleingeldersatz, substitute small change, to keep retail trade functioning when the Reichsbank could not produce low-denomination coins fast enough to meet demand. The Kaufmannschaft's issue was a local, practical fix, not a banking instrument in any serious sense.
Schwedt's series is sparsely documented in the Tieste corpus, which suggests original print runs were modest and survival rates low.