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2 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Marne (City of Marne) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Pfennigs (2 Pfennige) (0.02) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1920 1920 Stadt Marne. Pf. 2 Pf. Ersatzgeld. |
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| Protection description | No watermark. |
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Marne is a small market town in Dithmarschen, Holstein, and this 2 Pfennig piece is among the more marginal denominations produced during the German Notgeld wave of 1920 — a period when municipal and private issuers flooded the market with small-denomination emergency money as coin shortages persisted into the early Weimar years. At this face value, the practical utility was close to nothing even at the time of issue.
The presence of a watermark in what is essentially a scrap of thin green cardboard is the genuinely curious detail here — security expenditure on a 2 Pfennig local issue suggests either a cautious municipal treasurer or a printer with standardized stock that happened to carry it.