10 Pfennig, Stadt Gadebusch, 1921 (Reutergeld)

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.

This is the 10 Pfennig of the Stadt Gadebusch, the small value of the town's Reutergeld pair with the [[notgeld-gadebusch-reutergeld-25-pfennig]]. It is valid for local transactions until 31 December 1921 and signed by the Rat der Stadt. One face carries the value and a Low-German Reuter verse (beginning Et is't nu einmal in de Welt ...); the pictorial face shows a church or town building with a star and the heading Reutergeld - Stadt Gadebusch.

Gadebusch is a small town in western Mecklenburg-Schwerin, best remembered for the Battle of Gadebusch (Wakenstädt) of December 1712, Sweden's last great victory on German soil in the Great Northern War.