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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Perleberg (City of Perleberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large engraved panoramic view of the historic walled town of Perleberg as it appeared in the seventeenth century, with multiple church towers and flags, rendered in fine brown line work on a cream ground. A decorative header band in a lighter tan tone bears a Low German motto in Gothic lettering, while the legend 'Perleberck' appears in script above the vignette. The lower panel states the historical caption 'Anno Im Feuer versunken 1638', commemorating the town's destruction by fire during the Thirty Years' War. |
| Reverse lettering | Atru·det·is·en·seltzen·gast Perleberck Anno Im Feuer versunken 1638 |
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Perleberg is a small Brandenburg town, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — emergency small-change substitutes — because the Reichsbank simply could not produce enough low-denomination coinage to meet demand. The postwar coin shortage was real and severe; metal had gone to the war, and the mint infrastructure hadn't recovered.
The DeNG reference places this within a six-note series. Perleberg Notgeld of this period was printed locally or through regional printers common to Brandenburg issues, and typically circulated only within the town's commercial boundary — legally redeemable at the municipal treasury, practically worthless anywhere else.