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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse des Ostseebades Brunshaupten |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned Notgeld note divided into two vertical panels by a central border. The left panel carries the issuer text in bold Gothic lettering, with the denomination numeral '50' set within a black diamond lozenge overlaid with orange 'PFENNIG' lettering in the lower half. The right panel presents a hand-coloured vignette of a dairy cow being milked before two straw beehives, with the Baltic Sea visible in the background and a Low German dialect motto in a banner at the top; a serial number and the legend 'Ostseebad Brunshaupten' appear along the lower ribbon, with the account designation 'Konto E' at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ostseebad Brunshaupten Bauerngehöft 50 Pf D. R. G. M. 795679 |
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| Comments |
Brunshaupten was a small Baltic coastal resort on the Mecklenburg shore — the kind of seasonal town that issued Notgeld almost entirely to sell to tourists rather than to solve a genuine currency shortage. The collector-targeted Notgeld boom of 1921–22 produced millions of these small municipal notes, and Sparkasse issuers in holiday towns were among the most prolific participants. Whether this note ever changed hands in a real transaction is doubtful.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were a serious commercial printer, not a novelty house — their involvement suggests a reasonably competent production run rather than the cruder local-press jobs that plague some Notgeld series.