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10 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkassen des Mansfelder Seekreises |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Pfennig zahlen die Sparkassen des Mansfelder Seekreises dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Eisleben, den 14. Dezember 1920. Der Kreisausschuß Solang das Geld hat solchen Wert, kein Mensch sich ehrlich mehr ernährt |
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| Reverse lettering | Mansfelder Seekreis Zehn Pfennig 10 Der treue Mann den Pfennig ehrt, wenn er des Friers kühn begehrt! Ehrt jemand den Zehnpfennigschein, mag er wohl zehnfach reicher sein. Hier habt ihr wieder was zu gucken, auch das will deutsche Münze sein. Ob nur es so ob so bedrucken, in aller Welt gilt nur der Schein. |
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Mansfeld's lake district — the Seekreis — was copper mining country, and by 1920 the economic disruption of the postwar period had created a severe small-change shortage throughout provincial Germany. Local savings banks stepped in where the Reichsbank could not, issuing notgeld in denominations too small for the official system to bother with. The Sparkassen des Mansfelder Seekreises was one of hundreds of such institutions that briefly became de facto currency issuers by necessity.
The Grabowski-Mehl (M6.1a) and Vennen (1640.05.01) references suggest this is a documented type rather than a rarity, but Seekreis notgeld in circulated condition is harder to find than the collector issues produced elsewhere — these were made to spend, not save.