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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Randower Kreiskommunalkasse (District Communal Treasury of Randow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1095.1-5/12 |
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| Obverse lettering | ERSATZWERTZEICHEN fünfzig Pfennig 50 GÜLTIG BIS 30. JUNI 1922 ZAHLT DIE RANDOWER KREISKOMMUNAL-KASSE DEM EINLIEFERER DIESES GELDSCHEINES. STETTIN, DEN 1. SEPTEMBER 1921 DER VORSITZENDE D. KREISAUSSCHUSSES DES KREISES RANDOW LANDRAT |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and violet, centred on a detailed woodcut-style vignette of a street scene in Gartz an der Oder, with a Gothic church to the left and a medieval tower gateway to the right, bare winter trees in the foreground and a radiating sky in the background. Below the vignette, an open scroll cartouche carries a verse from the Randowlied (verse 5) in blackletter script. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in bold numerals within decorated panels at the lower left and right corners. The designer's name H. SCHUBERT and the printer's imprint M. BAUCHWITZ STETTIN are printed in small type at the lower margin. |
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Randow was a rural Kreis immediately east of Stettin, and like hundreds of German districts in 1921, its communal treasury issued Notgeld not because of wartime emergency but because of a chronic small-change shortage that persisted well into the Weimar period. The Reichsbank simply could not keep low-denomination coins in circulation fast enough against rampant hoarding and metal commodity speculation.
M. Bauchwitz was a Stettin-based printer that handled Notgeld contracts for several Pomeranian issuers during this period — a local job through and through. The DeNG reference suffix indicating five sub-varieties (1-5) suggests the series was issued across multiple dated or color variants, which is typical for Kreiskommunalkasse issues that were redeemed and reissued in short cycles as needs changed.