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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hagenow (City of Hagenow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries two colour vignettes flanking a central octagonal denomination cartouche printed in yellow-green on dark brown, bearing the numeral '50' and 'Pfg.'; the left vignette shows the Hauptbahnhof (main railway station) with a locomotive, while the right vignette shows a street scene labelled 'Stadtbahnhof'. A foliate vine border in green frames the entire note. The lower register contains a ribbon scroll with a Low German regional verse, below which the place and date 'Hagenow, in Oktober 1921' appear alongside two facsimile signatures over their respective titles, with a serial number at lower left. The title inscription 'Notgeld der Stadt Hagenow' runs in Gothic script across the top. |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. Sturm and Kunske (Dei Rat) and Michstädt (Dei Stadtspreker) |
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Hagenow's 1921 Notgeld issue came out of the municipality's need to plug the coin shortage that had been grinding down retail trade since the war years — small-denomination metal had effectively disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted down. Cities and towns across Mecklenburg-Schwerin were printing their own fractional scrip by this point, and Hagenow was no exception.
The Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was the court printer for the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, which accounts for the relatively clean production quality typical of their municipal Notgeld contracts. Designer O. Menzel's involvement places this among the more deliberately composed local issues rather than the purely utilitarian emergency printings.