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10 Pfennig - Tangermünde
| Issuer | City of Tangermünde |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a utilitarian Notgeld design featuring the large numeral '10' prominently centered within an inner circle of raised pearls. Surrounding the central field, a circular legend in raised Latin capital letters reads 'NOTGELD 10 STADT TANGERMÜNDE 1919', with five-pointed stars serving as separators between the word groups. The entire design is enclosed by an outer dentilated border of evenly spaced raised beads running along the rim. The flat, unadorned field gives the coin a strictly functional character consistent with the emergency coinage aesthetic of the post-World War I period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the large numeral '10' in bold, raised relief, centrally positioned within a plain, unornamented field. The figure occupies the majority of the reverse surface, rendered in a simple serif-influenced style. A fine beaded border of evenly spaced raised pearls encircles the rim, providing the sole decorative element on this otherwise stark design. The minimalist treatment reflects the emergency nature of the issue, prioritising denomination legibility over artistic elaboration. |
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Tangermünde's 1919 notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany following the wartime metal requisitions and postwar monetary disruption. The city, a small Hanseatic trading center on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, was typical of hundreds of German municipalities forced to produce their own subsidiary coinage when Reichsbank supplies collapsed. Zinc was the unavoidable material of the moment — copper and nickel had been stripped for the war effort years earlier.