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10 Pfennig Hoffmanns Hotel Falk
| Issuer | Hoffmanns Hotel Falk, Norderney |
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| Size | 90 x 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted Notgeld on cream stock, with a central vignette of the hotel building rendered in fine letterpress against a light green underprint; the denomination numeral '10' in large Gothic script appears to each side of the vignette, each followed by 'Pfg.' A six-pointed Star of David occupies each upper corner, with the issuer inscription 'Hoffmanns Hotel Falk Norderney' in ornate Fraktur lettering across the top. Two lateral columns of small-print text flank the lower portion of the vignette, while the validity clause 'Gültig bis 1. Oktober 1922' and the founding note 'Stammhaus gegründet 1844' are printed along the lower margin in bold Fraktur. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hoffmanns Hotel Falk Norderney 10 Pfg. Kein Mensch ist gezwungen, diesen Aushilfsschein anzunehmen. Dieser Aushilfsschein hat nur Gültigkeit in Hoffmanns Hotel Falk Norderney. Stammhaus gegründet 1844 Gültig bis 1. Oktober 1922 |
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Norderney, one of the East Frisian Islands, was a fashionable North Sea resort by the early twentieth century, and the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage during and after the First World War prompted dozens of local businesses — hotels included — to issue their own Kleingeldersatz. Hoffmanns Hotel Falk would have circulated this 10 Pfennig note among guests and local tradespeople as a practical substitute, redeemable at the hotel itself.
Private hotel notgeld of this type was never legal tender and carried real counterparty risk — worthless if the issuer folded before redemption.