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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Fürstenwalde, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is a richly coloured letterpress Notgeld vignette centred on the municipal coat of arms of Fürstenwalde, a quartered shield surmounted by a spread eagle above a stylised oak tree, flanked by the heraldic eagles of Brandenburg. Two dark circular medallions enclosed in laurel-and-poppy wreaths carry the legends 'Gutschein der Stadt' (left) and 'Fürstenwalde Spree' (right). At top, red-bordered text panels bear the poetic inscriptions 'Wer weiß, ob wir uns wiedersehn' and 'Am grünen Strand der Spree', while the denomination '50 Pfa.' appears in large red numerals at lower left and right, above a central text block with serial number and date 1921, signed by 'Der Magistrat'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bold expressionist silhouette vignette in black and green, rendered in a woodcut-like style, showing mounted raiders in violent motion — a scene identified in the caption below as the Quitzow knights on a plundering raid against Fürstenwalde in 1413. The date '1413' appears in white within the dark vignette field. Vertical side borders in ochre bear the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in Gothic script alongside stylised oak-leaf ornaments in red and green. |
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Fürstenwalde, a textile and manufacturing town on the Spree east of Berlin, issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Germany's postwar economy. Municipal and commercial notgeld of this period was often produced by regional printers with no particular expertise in security printing — J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu was primarily a commercial lithographer serving the southern German market, which accounts for the modest production quality typical of mid-tier 1921 civic issues.
By the time this note circulated, Germany's inflationary spiral was already accelerating. Most Pfennig-denomination notgeld had a short practical life before being rendered worthless by rising prices.