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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Mölln (City of Mölln) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) (1.00) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is oriented vertically on a blue-green ground with a red and black dashed outer border. At the top, the denomination '100 Pfennig' is repeated twice in large bold numerals, between which perches a small owl vignette. The central medallion, formed by a pearl-beaded oval cartouche, contains an intaglio-style scene of Till Eulenspiegel in jester's costume gazing into a mirror, accompanied by two other figures with coloured feathers; a red banner below the cartouche bears the name 'Till Eulenspiegel'. A framed text panel in the lower half carries a four-line rhyming verse in Gothic script, and the printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Oestreich, Rönnpage (Der Magistrat) and Henckel, Wagner (Das Stadtverordnetenkollegium) |
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Mölln issued this note during the peak of Germany's municipal emergency money wave, when hundreds of smaller towns printed their own Kleingeld to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that followed the First World War. Gebrüder Borchers in nearby Lübeck handled production for numerous Schleswig-Holstein municipalities during this period, making them a regional workhorse printer for Notgeld series.
The four-signature requirement — two from the Magistrat, two from the Stadtverordnetenkollegium — reflects the formal municipal governance structure insisted upon even for temporary scrip, giving these notes an unusually bureaucratic authentication for what was essentially stopgap currency. Mölln's issues are catalogued across three design variants at this denomination.