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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Dargun, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central circular vignette in black and purple on a hatched geometric underprint shows a standing red deer stag in a forest setting, rendered in bold woodcut style. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large Gothic characters at the upper left and upper right corners. Below the vignette, a three-line text block in Gothic script states the issuing authority and validity conditions, followed by the place name 'DARGUN' and two manuscript signatures of the municipal board. |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG PFENNIG REUTERGELD DARGUN |
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Dargun is a small town in Mecklenburg whose notgeld issues of the early 1920s were produced during the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's postwar economic dislocation. Municipal authorities across Germany were legally permitted to issue small-denomination emergency paper from 1916 onward, and thousands of towns did exactly that — Dargun among them.
By 1921 the Pfennig series had become something of a collector's market in its own right, with many municipalities printing aesthetically elaborate notes in deliberate excess of local need, sold directly to collectors. Whether Dargun's issue was genuine emergency currency or a collector-targeted Serienscheine is the operative question for any buyer.