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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Strasburg in der Uckermark |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion of the note bears the denomination title 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold black Gothic lettering underlined in red, flanked by circular '50' medallions in dark cartouches at the upper corners. A central rectangular vignette presents a line-drawn view of the Jugendheim (youth hostel) building, a low-pitched gabled structure flanked by cypress trees, rendered in fine letterpress. Ornamental side panels in gold and red with stylised floral and diamond motifs border the composition, while the lower register contains a four-line German verse in a gold-framed panel, with additional '50 Pfennig' corner denominations in square cartouches. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Jugendheim Führt fort mich das Leben, Weithin ins fremde Land Gedenk ich dein o Strasburg dort in dem Uckerland |
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Strasburg in der Uckermark — a small Brandenburg market town, not to be confused with the Alsatian Strasbourg — issued this Notgeld during the Weimar-era small change famine that forced thousands of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency. By 1921 the practice had become something of a cottage industry, with provincial printers like J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu servicing dozens of these local commissions simultaneously.
The single signatory, Merle, was the town's Bürgermeister at the time of issue.