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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goldberg (City of Goldberg, Mecklenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress on pale cream paper with a light underprint of repeating circular vignettes. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large blackletter type at upper left and right corners, with the issuer inscription 'Stadt Goldberg / Mecklbg.' across the top. A central oval vignette presents the city arms — a crenellated gatehouse tower — flanked by two cartouches bearing a Low German motto in blackletter script. Below, the issue date 'Ausgegeben 1. April 1921' and the authority line 'Der Rat:' are followed by four manuscript facsimile signatures; two red circular official seals flank the lower portion of the design, and the printer's imprint appears at the very foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Stadt Goldberg Mecklbg. Dörch Not büst Du gebur'n Dor Güllwer und Nickelgüng verlur'n Ausgegeben 1. April 1921 Der Rat: Paul Biedermann'sche Ratsbuchdruckerei, Goldberg (Meckl.) |
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Goldberg is a small Mecklenburg town that, like hundreds of German municipalities in the early 1920s, resorted to printing its own emergency money as the Reichsbank struggled to keep pace with postwar inflation and coin shortages. What makes this particular note marginally notable is that it was printed locally — the Paul Biedermann'sche Ratsbuchdruckerei was the town's own council print shop, giving the note an unusually tight connection between issuer and producer that most Notgeld lacks.
The Grabowski reference G27.3b places it within a documented sub-variant, suggesting at least minor typographic or color differentiation from sibling issues in the same series.