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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Preetz (City of Preetz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Gold-ochre ground with a dark blue border frame enclosing an ornate baroque acanthus-scroll surround in brown and gold, at centre a heraldic shield bearing a fish on a blue upper field and a diamond-lattice device on a red lower field, separated by wavy lines representing water. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large red figures within oval cartouches to left and right, flanked by repeating ampersand ornaments as underprint. Designer's signature 'O. Kahler' is inscribed in small lettering at the base of the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue and gold ground with baroque acanthus-scroll borders framing two figurative vignettes in relief-style letterpress: to the left a dancing woman in traditional dress, to the right a male figure in period costume, each set within a hexagonal cartouche. The central panel carries a Low German verse text in Gothic script above a redemption notice in High German, with the issuing authority and date printed at the foot. |
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Preetz is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1918 and 1923. By 1921 the emergency currency phenomenon had shifted from genuine necessity toward something more calculated — towns issued attractive small-denomination notes partly for collector sales, generating revenue while the paper itself rarely returned for redemption. Kahler's design credit is unusually specific for a piece at this level; most Kleingeldscheine of this period went unattributed.
The DeNG reference places it firmly in the documented Preetz series, with the ".2" suffix indicating a recognized variant within type 1071.