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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Sternberg (City of Sternberg), Mecklenburg, Germany |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 106 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette with a panoramic woodcut-style view of the town of Sternberg in Mecklenburg, dominated by the Gothic church tower rising above a dense cluster of half-timbered rooftages. Diagonal cross-hatched banderoles bearing text radiate from the corners, framing the scene, with the denomination numeral '100' printed in bold red on both left and right flanks. A red circular city seal of Sternberg is affixed at lower centre, accompanied by a manuscript signature, issuing text, and the date '23. Januar 1922' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Sternberg i. Mecklbg. TERMIN DER EINLÖSUNG 1 MONAT NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTLICHER BEKANNTMACHUNG IM AMTSBLATT PFENNIG 100 zahle die städt. Ersparnis-Anstalt gegen diese Platzanweisung a. Überbringer: Sternberg in Mecklbg. den 23. Januar 1922 Der Rat der Stadt |
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Sternberg's 1922 notgeld issue came at a moment when municipal governments across Germany were flooding the market with emergency small-denomination paper to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by inflation. Gebrüder Jänecke of Hannover printed a large share of such municipal commissions during this period, operating essentially as a notgeld factory alongside their regular commercial work.
The designer credit to Jos. Dominicus of Paderborn is an unusual detail — most notgeld of this type was produced entirely in-house by the printer without separate design attribution.