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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Dahme in der Mark |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Dahme i.d. Mark Dieser Gutschein ist über Fünfzig Pfennig 1920 50 1/2 Mark binnen drei Monaten nach erfolgtem Aufruf bei der Städt. Bank einzulösen. Der Magistrat: Druck: Reineck & Klein Weimar. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and tan with a finely rendered letterpress vignette of the Stadtschloss — now serving as the Stadtschule — a baroque palatial structure built in 1714 by Herzog Johann Adolf II of Saxony-Weissenfels, framed by mature trees. The header reads 'Gutschein 50 Dahme/Mark' in Gothic lettering, with the denomination '50' set in a circular panel at centre top, and vertical '50 Pfennig' inscriptions running along both lateral borders. A serial number is printed in black above the vignette, and a caption below the building identifies the structure and its historical provenance. |
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Dahme in der Mark issued this Notgeld piece during the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922, when chronic small-denomination coin shortages forced hundreds of towns to print their own fractional notes. Reineck & Klein in Weimar were prolific Notgeld printers, handling commissions from municipalities across Thuringia and Brandenburg — quality was competent but rarely distinguished.
Dahme itself is a small Brandenburg market town southeast of Berlin, and its Notgeld issues attracted modest collector interest during the Schundgeld craze of the early 1920s, when speculators hoarded decorative municipal notes almost as fast as towns could print them.