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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Tiegenhof (City of Tiegenhof, Prussian province of West Prussia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on a matching guilloche underprint. The issuer inscription in blackletter runs across the top, with the town coat of arms — a crenellated red gateway with three towers — centrally placed between two bold numeral '10' denominators. 'Pfennig' is lettered in blackletter below each numeral, and a two-line redemption clause in small script runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Tiegenhof 10 Pfennig 10 Pfennig Dieser Notgeldschein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb zweier Wochen nach Aufforderung des Magistrats bei der städt. Kämmereikasse Tiegenhof eingelöst wird. |
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Tiegenhof — now Nowy Dwór Gdański in Poland — issued this Notgeld piece during the peculiar administrative limbo that followed Versailles. The town sat in the contested territory of the Weichsel delta, and by 1920 its political future was unresolved: the region would not be formally incorporated into the newly reconstituted Polish state until that same year, following the plebiscite arrangements. Local municipalities across the German east printed emergency small change partly because Reichsbank coin had long since vanished from circulation, and partly because the act of issuing civic Notgeld carried an implicit assertion of continued German municipal identity.
The paper is thin and the printing typically crude — a local job, not a specialty press.