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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg (Rat der Stadt Fürstenberg i. M.) |
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| In circulation to | 31 May 1922 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a pale rose-tinted ground within a ruled rectangular border. A panoramic line-engraved vignette occupies the central zone, rendering a wide view of Fürstenberg across water meadows, with the town's church steeple rising above rooftops and a large tree to the right. Above the central vignette, a boxed text panel carries two columns of Low German verse in Gothic blackletter script. At the lower corners, the denomination numeral '10' with 'PF' appears in bold gold letterpress within square cartouches, flanking a central legend panel bearing the issuing authority text and three manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on a warm rose ground within a ruled border with notched corner ornaments at top and bottom centre. A large oval vignette in the centre carries a two-colour letterpress rendering of a manor house set among mature oak trees, executed in yellow and dark brown. The title 'Reutergeld' is inscribed in a flowing cursive script above the oval, and the issuing city name appears in matching script below. Denomination numerals '10' with 'Pf.' occupy the upper left and right corners. |
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Fürstenberg an der Havel sits in what was then the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and like hundreds of small German municipalities it resorted to locally issued Notgeld during the coin shortages of the First World War. The Rat der Stadt — the town council — was the formal issuing authority, a common arrangement that gave these emergency pieces a veneer of civic legitimacy without any backing from the Reichsbank.
Small-denomination Mecklenburg Notgeld of this type was printed in large quantities but rarely survived daily handling intact; the paper was cheap and the notes changed hands constantly for minor transactions until proper coinage returned.