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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grömitz (Municipality of Grömitz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | A panoramic vignette of the Grömitz townscape occupies the upper two-thirds of the note, rendered in black linework over a blue-grey underprint and framed by a bold red and black decorative border with stylised column ornaments at each side. The denomination '50 PFG' appears in large red and white numerals in the lower left and right corners flanking a central red text panel bearing the issue date and official signatures. The printer's imprint 'Gebrüder Borchers G.m.b.H., Lübeck.' is set in small letterpress below the main frame, above a scalloped lower edge. |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries a colourful multicolour vignette of bathers and figures at play on the Baltic Sea beach at Grömitz, with the open sea and a wooded shoreline in the background, all rendered in a lively illustrative style using red, blue, green, and yellow. Large '50 PFG' denomination numerals in red and black anchor the lower left and right corners, flanking a central pink text panel bearing a four-line German verse. A decorative teal and black typographic band runs along the bottom edge. |
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Grömitz is a small Baltic coastal resort in Holstein, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German emergency money — by this point no longer driven purely by coin shortages but increasingly by local pride and the collector trade that had grown up around the earlier necessity issues. Municipalities competed to produce attractive small-denomination notes, and printers like Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck did steady business supplying them to towns across Schleswig-Holstein.
The Wertzhal and Herst Becker signatures are manuscript or facsimile authorizations typical of municipal issues, carrying no real banking weight — these were essentially scrip backed by local government credibility, not a central monetary authority.