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10 Pfennigs Caffé Blücher
| Issuer | Caffé Blücher (Inhaber Fr. Hansen), Flensburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Orange guilloche underprint of repeating 'CB' monogram cartouches fills the field. Central vignette shows a bust portrait of Fürst von Blücher within a dotted oval frame, flanked by the proprietor inscription 'Inhaber: Fr. Hansen.' Bold Gothic lettering 'CAFFÉ BLÜCHER' arches across the top; validity inscription 'Gültig bis zum 1. Jan. 1921' at foot; serial number printed vertically at right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | CAFFÉ BLÜCHER Inh. Fr. Hansen 10 10 J. M. FEDDERSEN, FLBG. |
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Flensburg's post-WWI notgeld scene was unusually active given the city's peculiar status: the 1920 plebiscite had only just confirmed its place within Germany, and the local currency shortage hit businesses hard almost immediately. This note was issued by a café — a retail food establishment covering small transactions with its own scrip, a common but telling sign of how completely the Reichsbank had lost its grip on everyday commerce by 1921.
J. M. Feddersen was a local Flensburg printer, not a specialist notgeld house, which accounts for the modest production quality typical of this issue. DeNG 1#364.1 suggests only one known type for this issuer, making Caffé Blücher a single-entry operator in the notgeld record.