1 Pfennig, Carl Ouden, Lassan-Zinnowitz
Carl Ouden, Manufaktur- u. Modewaren, Lassan-Zinnowitz
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00450
- Serial
- D 4029
- Series year
- 1920
- Actually issued
- 1920
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- AU (IBNS)
Light toning. About uncurrent: bright and unfolded, with light handling - a corner bump or a faint edge tone. Estimated from the 600 dpi archival scan, which cannot show paper crispness, pinholes, pressing or small repairs.
- Estimated value
- $8 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-26.
- Dimensions
- 51.9 × 40.9 mm (±0.5, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldSerienscheinWeimar RepublicPomeraniaPrivate issueShop scrip
The type
- Type
- 1 Pfennig, Carl Ouden, Lassan-Zinnowitz
- Printer
- Not established
- Rarity
- common
Symbology
- One pfennig
- The smallest face value here. By 1923 it would take a hundred billion of them to buy a loaf.
- Lettered runs
- D on this one, B on the five. The letters mark print runs rather than designs - the same note, reprinted as the shop ran out.
What was happening
Notgeld began in 1914 out of necessity: coin vanished into hoards within weeks of mobilisation and towns printed their own small change because the Reichsbank could not supply enough.
By 1920 it had become something else. The shortage was easing but the collector market was not, and a town could take real marks for paper it hoped would never be presented. So the municipalities commissioned Serienscheine: lithographed sets, printed far beyond any local need, illustrated with whatever the place was proud of - a legend, a famous son, a battle, a joke in dialect. The result is the most inventive body of graphic design in the history of paper money, made by places with a few thousand inhabitants, in the years when Germany's currency was dying.
The one-Pfennig voucher from the same draper, lettered D. A single pfennig is the smallest denomination in this entire collection, and it tells you how far the coin shortage went: a shop could not give a customer one pfennig in metal.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 1 Pfennig, Carl Ouden, Lassan-Zinnowitz in the collection.
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