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10 Pfennige Dannefeld; Warenhaus Wilhelm Gadau
| Issuer | Warenhaus Wilhelm Gadau, Dannefeld (Altmark) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1#256.1 |
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| Reverse description | Light yellow-green note with a mottled underprint and a matching zigzag outer border. The central vignette is a detailed letterpress forest scene captioned 'Partie aus dem Drömmling', showing tall trees in a low-lying woodland landscape. The denomination '10 Pfg.' is printed vertically in bold type within decorative circular-link panels on both the left and right margins. Below the vignette, a three-line explanatory text in blackletter script describes the Drömmling as a formerly marshy lowland, passable only in hard frost, that was drained under Frederick the Great and became productive agricultural land. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein von Wilh. Gadau, Dannefeld. 10 Pfg. 10 Pfg. Partie aus dem Drömmling Der Drömmling, eine einst sehr sumpfige Niederung, nur bei strenger Kälte passierbar, wurde unter Friedrich d. Gr. kanalisiert und ist jetzt ein sehr ertragreicher Landstrich geworden. |
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Dannefeld is a village in the Altmark region of Saxony-Anhalt — small enough that its wartime and postwar Notgeld issues are often overlooked in favor of the more elaborately printed municipal series. This note was issued by a private retail business, Warenhaus Wilhelm Gadau, during the acute small-change shortage of 1921, when coins had effectively vanished from everyday commerce due to metal hoarding and the accelerating devaluation of the Mark.
Julius Könecke in Gardelegen handled the printing — a local jobbing press responsible for a number of Altmark private Notgeld issues that year.