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10 Pfennig Volksbibliothek und Lesestuben
| Issuer | City of Brunswick (Braunschweig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an opened book bearing the Saxon Steed sigil with the large numeral value; a black mouse appears at upper left and the Brunswick civic coat of arms at upper right. The text is rendered in an archaic Early New High German script, imitating the typographical style of 16th-century printed documents. The overall layout presents the note as a mock historical proclamation, with the denomination and issuing body identified within the body of the text. |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: 10 Pfennig Money note Issued during the time of need All the good money was swallowed up by the exhaustive war. Accepts in this year 1921 for the stated honest money value, the common people library and reading rooms, the cloth hall in the city of Brunswick) |
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Brunswick issued this note in 1921 as part of the broader German Notgeld wave, but the specific designation here is worth pausing on: the proceeds or context tied to the Volksbibliothek und Lesestuben — the public library and reading rooms — places this among a subset of municipal emergency issues that served a promotional or fundraising purpose alongside their nominal payment function. Many such thematic Notgeld notes from this period were produced in excess of circulation needs, deliberately targeting collectors, which was already a recognized and somewhat cynical practice by 1921.