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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rügenwalde (City of Rügenwalde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress Notgeld note with a central coat of arms vignette flanked by a sailing ship to the left and a standing fisherman figure to the right, against a crosshatched background. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals in the upper-right corner, with the value 'Fünfzig Pfennig' inscribed centrally below the arms. Multi-line text in Gothic script fills the upper and lower registers, identifying the issuing municipality and conditions of redemption. |
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| Reverse lettering | Rügenwalde Notgeld 50 50 Fünfzig Pfennig |
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Rügenwalde — now Darłowo in northwestern Poland — issued this emergency note during the Weimar-era Notgeld wave that flooded Germany with thousands of locally printed small-denomination scrip pieces between 1919 and 1922. The municipal issues of Pomeranian towns like Rügenwalde were driven partly by the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage and partly by the opportunity for local revenue through collector sales.
The town was expelled from German administration following the Potsdam Agreement in 1945, making all pre-war municipal paper from this region documentary curiosities of a place that no longer exists under its original name.