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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat zu Stargard in Pommern |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set against a fine guilloche underprint of interlocking rosette and lattice patterns in pale ochre, with the large numeral '50' rendered as a watermark-style tonal vignette at center. Two circular municipal coat-of-arms vignettes appear in the upper left and upper right corners, each surmounted by a helmet crest. The denomination is stated in Gothic Fraktur script as 'fünfzig 50 Pfennige' across the upper field, with a multi-line redemption text below referencing the städtische Sparkasse zu Stargard in Pommern, and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' at the foot. Corner panels bear the series letter 'II' in each of the four corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennige zahlt die städtische Sparkasse zu Stargard in Pommern bei Rückgabe dieser Platz= anweisung an den Ueberbringer. Stargard i. Pom., den 15. Januar 1917. Der Magistrat. |
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Stargard in Pommern — now Stargard in northwestern Poland — issued this 50 Pfennig note as a Notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities from 1916 onward. The Reichsbank's wartime metal requisitions had stripped copper and nickel coinage from circulation, forcing local authorities to paper over the gap themselves.
The Magistrat series from Stargard belongs to the earlier, plainer phase of municipal emergency money — before the elaborate collector-targeted issues of 1921–22 turned Notgeld into a cottage industry.