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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Preetz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Tan and olive-green Notgeld note with a decorative acanthus-scroll underprint in ochre and blue-grey tones. At centre, a large red heraldic shield bearing a stylised letter 'E' in the Expressionist manner occupies most of the vignette, flanked by a secondary blue shield device at lower right; the municipal arms of Preetz — a fish over a lattice pattern — appear in a smaller shield at lower left. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is inscribed in Gothic Fraktur script within a banner cartouche at the top, with the issuing authority legend at the head and foot of the note, and a redemption notice signed by the Magistrat and dated Preetz, April 1921 in the lower text panel. |
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| Reverse description | Colour letterpress vignette of a street scene in Preetz rendered in a bold Expressionist graphic style, printed in red, green, and black on a tan ground. A red-brick church tower with a pointed spire rises at centre-left, partially obscured by a large lush tree, with traditional red-roofed townhouses flanking both sides of the composition. The denomination numeral '50' appears in stylised red Gothic lettering on both the left and right vertical borders, with the word 'Notgeld' running vertically in matching script alongside each numeral. |
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Preetz is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its Magistrat issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to address the chronic shortage of coins that had plagued Germany since the war years. The national mint simply could not keep pace with demand as inflation accelerated, so local authorities filled the gap themselves, often with whatever printer was nearby.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.3-4/6) indicate multiple printing runs or paper stocks cataloged under the same design, a common situation with municipal issues where local printers reordered in small batches.