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10 Pfennig - Stavenhagen
| Issuer | City of Stavenhagen |
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| Thickness | 1.13 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD D. STADT STAVENHAGEN ● |
| Reverse description | A bearded male bust facing forward, depicting the Low German poet and writer Fritz Reuter, occupies the central field within a circular border. A lengthy quotation in Low German dialect encircles the bust, reading continuously around the periphery of the coin. The portrait is rendered in low relief with modest artistic detail, capturing the writer's distinctive spectacles and full beard. The inscription is a well-known aphorism attributed to Reuter, rendered in the Mecklenburg Plattdeutsch dialect. |
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Stavenhagen issued iron notgeld during the acute coin shortages of World War I, when the German imperial government progressively withdrew copper and nickel coinage from circulation for war material. Municipal iron pieces like this one filled the gap left by hoarded official currency, though their acceptance was strictly local and their legal status perpetually ambiguous. The city is best known as the birthplace of Fritz Reuter, the Low German dialect writer — a distinction that shaped the iconographic choices of several Stavenhagen notgeld issues.