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10 Pfennig Waldmohr; Consum-Verein
| Issuer | Consum-Verein Waldmohr e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted note with an all-over geometric lattice underprint enclosed within a double-rule border. Issuer name in Fraktur blackletter runs across the top; a central text panel states the voucher clause in letterpress, with the denomination in a ruled rectangular cartouche. Lower left carries the numeral value "10 Pf." and lower right repeats the issuer name and board attribution. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on buff-brown paper stock, with no inscriptions, vignettes, or underprint; fold marks and minor surface damage are visible. |
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Waldmohr is a small town in the Palatinate, and like hundreds of similar communities across Germany, its consumer cooperative issued emergency small change — Kleingeldersatz — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Consum-Verein Waldmohr e.G.m.b.H. was a registered cooperative with limited liability, a legal structure common to workers' purchasing societies of the period, and its scrip was redeemable only within the cooperative's own retail operation, not as general local currency.
That restricted redemption is the detail that matters for survival rates: notes returned to the issuer were routinely destroyed once the coin supply normalized, making intact examples genuinely uncommon.