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199 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wittenburg (City of Wittenburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 30 January 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | 199 Pfg. Kleinscheck den Gültig bis Johannis 1922 Wittenburg i 30 Jan. 1922 DER RAT DER STADT Bürgermeister Stadtöchner Stadt Wittenburg in Mecklenburg DER STADTVERORDNETEN VORSTEHER Louis Pieplow |
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| Reverse lettering | ES • STARB • GRAF • HEINRICH • BETET • FUER • IHN • GEDENKSTEIN • BEI • WASCHOW • WITTENBURG • AUS • HEINRICHS • DES • LOEWEN • ZEITEN |
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| Comments |
Wittenburg's 199 Pfennig denomination is a deliberate oddity — odd-value Notgeld was sometimes issued to discourage hoarding by making change calculations awkward enough that notes would cycle back through commerce rather than disappear into pockets. Whether that was the actual intent here or simply the arithmetic of a local cash shortage is unresolved, but the value itself is the note's defining characteristic.
H. Pinkepauk designed it locally, which was common for smaller Mecklenburg municipalities that lacked connections to the major Notgeld printing houses in Berlin or Leipzig.