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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Templin (City of Templin) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Mühlentor in Templin 50 Gegen diesen Schein zahlen die unterzeichneten Firmen Fünfzig Pfennig Adolf Forker, Leipzig |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by two large cartouches set against a stippled blue-grey underprint ground. The left cartouche, octagonal in outline with scrollwork corners, contains the bold numeral '50' in white relief with fine internal line engraving. The right cartouche carries the denomination in ornate Gothic blackletter script reading 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in white against the deep blue field, with scrolled flourishes above and below. |
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Templin's 1920 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation during the postwar economic dislocation. Adolf Forker of Leipzig was a minor commercial printer who handled notgeld contracts for numerous provincial towns during this period — competent workmanship, nothing exceptional.
Templin itself is a small walled town in Brandenburg, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued these notes purely out of necessity, with no central coordination or standardized redemption guarantee beyond the issuing city's own word.