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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neustettin (City of Neustettin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 88.9 × 57.12 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD · DER · STADT · NEUSTETTIN 50 Pf. NEUSTETTIN 15. NOVEMBER 1921 DER MAGISTRAT Dieser Gutschein kann v. 1. Okt. 1922 an aufgerufen werden u. wird alsdann bis zum 1. Juli 1923 unter Umtausch gegen andre gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel eingezogen. Die Stadtgem. Neustettin haftet f. Einlösung Druck von Adolf Forker Leipzig |
| Reverse description | Blue-grey letterpress vignette executed in a fine engraved style, enclosed within an ornamental border of scalloped blue lobes on a cream ground. The central scene is a detailed architectural view of the Nikolaiturm (St. Nicholas Tower), a medieval stone tower with a pointed spire, surrounded by trees rendered in hatched linework; the artist's signature 'Weisner-Cattenbey' appears at lower left of the vignette. The denomination '50 PFENNIG' is inscribed at the upper portion of the field, and the legend 'NIKOLAITURM' is set in bold letterpress type within a cartouche at the foot of the note. |
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Neustettin — now Szczecinek in northwestern Poland — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Notgeld during the inflationary pressures of the early Weimar period. Stadt Neustettin's 1921 50 Pfennig note was printed by Adolf Forker of Leipzig, a firm that handled a substantial volume of small-denomination emergency currency for provincial towns during this period, working efficiently but without distinction.
Forker's output for minor municipalities tends to be plain by Notgeld standards — none of the elaborate artistic series that collectors prize from this era.