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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Gadebusch (City of Gadebusch) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 110 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG Gültig für den Geldverkehr Innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis zum 31. Dezember 1921. Wenn den't Düwel sin Reich uneinig is, hewwen de armen Seelen Fierabend. Der Rat der Stadt Gadebusch: Der Stadtverordnetenvorsteher: |
| Reverse description | A large semicircular vignette in brown and red tones, rendered in woodcut manner, occupies the upper portion of the note and presents a panoramic view of the Gadebusch church and town roofscape rising against a hatched sky; the denomination '50' and 'PFENNIG' are inscribed within the arch above the scene. A ruled ornamental border with stylised foliate corner motifs frames the entire composition. At the base, a rectangular panel carries a two-line inscription identifying this as Notgeld of the Stadt Gadebusch. |
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Gadebusch is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany as coin shortages and postwar economic instability made central bank denominations increasingly unworkable at the retail level. Towns this size rarely had sophisticated printing arrangements — most contracted with regional commercial printers, and quality control was inconsistent across the run.
The DeNG reference suffix 1-3/3 indicates this is the third of three known varieties within the series, distinguished by some combination of color, serial, or typographic difference that the catalogers deemed sufficient for separate listing.