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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Stettin (City of Stettin) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Plain white reverse with a serial number printed vertically in the lower left area in upright serif type. The remainder of the surface is unprinted, showing the texture of the plain paper stock. |
| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] |
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Stettin's 1917 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipally authorized emergency currency, printed after the Reichsbank's coin-hoarding crisis stripped small denominations from everyday commerce. The city was a major Baltic port and industrial hub, and the demand for low-value transactional currency was acute — wages had to be paid, tram fares collected, market stalls operated.
Printed locally, these notes bypassed the overwhelmed central printing infrastructure entirely. Wear patterns on surviving examples tend to concentrate along vertical fold lines, consistent with notes folded and carried in wage envelopes rather than wallets.