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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Marienburg (West Prussia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Brown note with a large central vignette of a mounted Teutonic Knight in full armour and mantle, holding a sword upright, set before a panoramic skyline view of Marienburg with the castle visible in the background. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is lettered in bold Gothic script across the centre of the composition, with the numeral '50' repeated in the lower corners. Heraldic shields appear in the upper corners, and vertical ruled border panels frame the design at left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig 50 50 |
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Marienburg's 50 Pfennig notgeld was printed by Julius Sauer in Danzig at a moment when the city's own political future was unresolved — Danzig would be detached from Germany and declared a Free City under League of Nations protection just months later, in November 1920. Marienburg itself was awarded to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles, a decision bitterly contested given the town's overwhelming German-speaking population.
The choice of a Danzig printer in 1919 reflects how tightly the two cities were still commercially linked before the borders hardened.