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10 Pfennigs - Etzdorf Rittergut
| Issuer | Rittergut Etzdorf |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A continuous pearl (beaded) border defines the inner field, at the centre of which the large numeral 10 is prominently displayed. The word PFENNIG is inscribed in a straight line beneath the numeral, while the legend KLEINGELD ERSATZ curves around the upper portion of the field, indicating the token's function as small-change substitute currency. The outer edge is likewise finished with a pearl rim consistent with the obverse. |
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Etzdorf Rittergut issued this zinc notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar period, when municipal authorities, estates, and private enterprises alike were legally permitted — and practically compelled — to produce their own emergency coinage. Rittergüter, the old Prussian manorial estates, occupied an unusual position as issuers: semi-private, semi-institutional, with enough local economic weight to make their scrip viable within a tight geographic radius.
The Hasselmann catalog distinguishes a second variety at this reference number, suggesting at least minor die or compositional variation exists within the type.