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100 Pfennig

Issuer Stadt Eutin (City of Eutin)
Year 1920
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Reference(s) DeNG 1/2#0359.1a-4/4
Obverse description Tan and brown Notgeld note with a striped border frame. At centre, the civic arms of Eutin — a shield bearing a stylised cross-and-wheel device — is set within a decorative wreath of red roses and green foliage. The title inscription 'NOTGELD DER STADT' appears to the left of the arms in bold letterpress, with 'EUTIN' to the right. Two verse couplets in German script are printed on scroll-like banners across the upper portion of the note. Below the arms, a validity clause in small text references redemption at the Stadtkasse in Eutin, dated 'im Dezember 1920', flanked by two manuscript signatures above the large denomination legend 'GUT FÜR 100 PFENNIG' at the foot.
Obverse lettering Für Gold u. Silber nimm den Schein
Und steck' ihn ohne Murren ein!
Eh' Hamstern, Schieben hat sein End'
Geht er noch oft in and're Händ'.
NOTGELD DER STADT
EUTIN
Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats im Anzeiger für das Fürstentum Lübeck und im Lübecker Generalanzeiger zur Einlösung bei der Stadtkasse in Eutin oder den bekanntgemachten Banken vorgelegt wird.
Magistrat.
Eutin, im Dezember 1920.
Stadtrat.
GUT FÜR 100 PFENNIG
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Comments

Eutin was a small ducal seat in Holstein, and by 1920 the German small-change crisis — the so-called Kleingeldnot — had forced hundreds of municipalities to issue their own emergency money. The Stadt Eutin note is one of four sub-variants catalogued under DeNG 0359.1a, differentiated by serial prefix and, in some cases, minor typographical differences in the authorization text. Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck handled a great deal of regional Notgeld work from Schleswig-Holstein municipalities during this period, making their output competent but hardly scarce in absolute printing terms.

Condition is the real variable here. Municipal Notgeld was often handled carelessly once the immediate shortage passed, and the 1920 redemption window for most Holstein issues was short.

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