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10 Pfennig Verein für Handel und Gewerbe
| Issuer | Verein für Handel und Gewerbe E.V., Schweich |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with a vignette at left centre portraying a blacksmith at an anvil, hammer raised, set within an oval cartouche. To the right, the denomination '10 Pfennig' is printed in large bold type at the top, below which the issuing association name and seat in Schweich appear, followed by a handwritten-style obligation text dated 1 October 1920 and three manuscript signatures of the Vorsitzender, Schriftführer, and Kassierer. A cautionary validity notice in smaller text occupies the lower left margin beneath the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Alter Fahrturm auf der linken Moselseite, benutzt bis 1906. |
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Schweich am der Mosel is a small wine-market town in the Moselle valley, and in 1920 its trade and commerce association — the Verein für Handel und Gewerbe — issued this note as Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar years. Municipal and commercial bodies across the country filled the gap left by the disappearance of metal coinage, hoarded almost universally by a public bracing for worse inflation to come.
Notes issued by local commercial associations rather than municipal treasuries are modestly less common than the civic variety, as their redemption networks were narrower and their print runs typically smaller.