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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grömitz (Municipality of Grömitz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a panoramic vignette of the Ostseebad Grömitz townscape with a church steeple and buildings rendered in a fine line-art style, set against a plain sky. The denomination '50 PFG' appears in large numerals at lower left and lower right, flanking a central text block with validity and issuing authority inscriptions. The heading 'Notgeld Ostseebad Grömitz' runs along the top in bold Gothic lettering, with the issuing municipality's facsimile signature at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld Ostseebad Grömitz 50 PFG Hört ihr rauscht, hört ihr weit, Winde der Arbeit, beim Einsatz der Groß, Wieviel Wünsche, die werden solcher, Als an Golenz im Kreise des Meere. |
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Grömitz, a small Baltic coastal settlement in Holstein, issued this Notgeld note during the inflationary spiral that followed Germany's defeat in the First World War. Municipal scrip of this kind proliferated across thousands of German and Austrian communities between 1919 and 1922, filling the vacuum left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage — hoarding and metal costs had made coins effectively disappear from everyday commerce.
Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which is consistent with the improvised nature of Notgeld production generally. The DeNG reference places this within a documented series for Grömitz, suggesting at least two design variants were issued.