10 Pfennig, Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg, 1921 (Reutergeld)

Reutergeld der Stadt Fürstenberg i. M.

Reverse of 10 Pfennig, Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg, 1921 (Reutergeld) — Reverse 600 dpi

This copy

Accession: OM-00815
Series year: 1921
Actually issued: 1921
Signatures: This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
Grade: UNC (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
Estimated value: $10 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-24.
Dimensions: 76.4 × 54.4 mm (±0.5, from the scan)
Themes: Notgeld Serienschein Mecklenburg Reutergeld Low German verse Weimar Republic

The type

Type: 10 Pfennig, Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg, 1921 (Reutergeld)
Printer: Not established
Rarity: common

Fürstenberg in MecklenburgGermany, 1920 borders

Symbology

Fritz Reuter verse: A quotation in Low German from the poet Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), which gives the Mecklenburg "Reutergeld" genre its name.
Town building in an oval: The pictorial face shows a Fürstenberg building framed in an oval beneath the heading "Reutergeld - Stadt Fürstenberg i. M.".
Validity to 31 May 1922: The note is stated to be good within the municipality until 31 May 1922 - emergency money designed from the outset to lapse.

What was happening

Reutergeld was Mecklenburg's own version of the Notgeld collector craze. Around 1921 a number of Mecklenburg towns issued Serienscheine whose texts quoted the Low-German (Plattdeutsch) poet Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), the region's most beloved writer, born at Stavenhagen. The Stiftung Mecklenburg describes Reutergeld as a purely collectible issue without real payment function, spreading Reuter's dialect lines as a piece of regional self-advertisement and early tourism promotion; the companion 25 Pfennig is [[notgeld-fuerstenberg-mecklenburg-reutergeld-25-pfennig]].

This is the 10 Pfennig of the Stadt Fürstenberg, issued by Der Magistrat and valid until 31 May 1922. The pictorial face reads Reutergeld - Stadt Fürstenberg i. M. and shows a town building in an oval with the value "10 Pf"; the other face carries a landscape and a Plattdeutsch Reuter verse.

"Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg" is Fürstenberg/Havel, today a small town in northern Brandenburg but in 1921 the southernmost corner of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. It is a Wasserstadt ("water town") built on islands among the Röblinsee, Baalensee and Schwedtsee, below a Baroque ducal palace raised in 1741-52 as a dowager seat of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz dukes. (The town should not be confused with the Swabian Fürstenberg or the Oder-side Fürstenberg.)

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 10 Pfennig, Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg, 1921 (Reutergeld) in the collection.

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