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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Doberan (City of Bad Doberan) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre ground with an expressive black letterpress vignette in the Expressionist style, signed 'Egon Tschirch 1921' at lower right. The central motif shows two grotesque figures — a horned devil and a human — engaged in a tug-of-war over the large blue-grey numeral '50 Pf', surrounded by flowing ribbon banners carrying Low German dialect text. The issuer's name 'NOTGELD STADT DOBERAN' appears in bold Gothic lettering across the top. |
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| Reverse lettering | AUSGEGEBEN ZUR 75. JAHRFEIER NOTGELD DER STADT DOBERAN DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 3 MONATE NACH BEKANNTMACHUNG DER RAT DER STADT DOBERAN EGON TSCHIRCH |
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Bad Doberan's 1921 Notgeld issue is among the more artistically coherent of the German municipal emergency currency series — Egon Tschirch was a Rostock-born painter with genuine regional credentials, not a commercial illustrator hired for the work. His involvement gives the issue a documentary weight that purely decorative Notgeld typically lacks.
By 1921 the Notgeld phenomenon had largely shifted from genuine small-change necessity — that crisis peaked in 1918–19 — into deliberate collector series printed in excess of local need. Whether Doberan's issue was primarily functional or already aimed at the philatelic trade is a question the survival numbers would need to answer.