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10 Pfennig - Unterweserstädte
| Issuer | Bremerhaven, Lehe and Geestemünde, Cities of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | A continuous pearl border frames the reverse. The inscription NOTGELD curves along the upper periphery in raised Latin letters, flanked at either side by small decorative rosette stops. The large numeral 10 dominates the center field in bold relief, with the date 1919 positioned in the lower portion of the field. Two small ornamental stars flank the numeral at mid-height, reinforcing the simple, functional design typical of German Notgeld coinage of the period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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These three North Sea port cities — Bremerhaven, Lehe, and Geestemünde — issued this zinc notgeld jointly in 1919 as the postwar currency crisis left Germany's small-denomination coinage chronically short. The Unterweserstädte designation reflects their geographic and commercial interdependence along the lower Weser estuary, though administratively they remained separate until the Prussian state merged Lehe and Geestemünde into Wesermünde in 1924. Bremerhaven held out as an enclave of the Free City of Bremen until 1939, when the Nazi government finally consolidated the entire mouth of the Weser under a single municipal authority.