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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Perleberg (City of Perleberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and red tones on a cream ground, with the issuer's name 'Stadt Perleberg' in bold Gothic blackletter across the upper register, flanked by two red octagonal denomination vignettes reading '50' set within decorative blue frames. The central vignette presents an open money pouch spilling coins against a background panorama of the Perleberg town skyline with a prominent church steeple, accompanied by the Gothic text 'Es war einmal.' At the foot of the note, a horizontal legend states the validity period and serial number at left, with the city coat of arms — a blue shield bearing a red star flower — at centre, and the issuing authority inscription 'Der Magistrat' with a manuscript signature at right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in sepia tones on a cream ground and is dominated by a detailed engraved vignette of the Perleberg Roland statue — an armoured medieval knight bearing a lance, mounted on a tall column pedestal — set against a background of the town square with period buildings. The label 'Roland' appears in script at upper right. A decorative ochre banner at the top carries a Middle Low German inscription in Gothic lettering, and a second ochre panel at the foot bears the word 'Getreüzt' in bold blackletter, with the numeral '3' in ornamental cartouches at both upper corners. |
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Perleberg is a small Prignitz market town in Brandenburg, and its 1921 Notgeld emission sits squarely in the main wave of municipal paper flooding Germany after the Reichsbank lost control of small-change supply. The city issued multiple variants — the reference covering six sub-types across three primary groupings — which is a reasonable output for a mid-sized municipal issuer scrambling to meet everyday transactional demand.
Collectors should note the DeNG reference spans distinct text and color variants within the 1056 grouping; not all are equally available, and conflating sub-types at purchase is a recurring problem with this series.