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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Strelitz (City of Strelitz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Gutschein der Stadt Strelitz den 1. Februar 1921 Der Rat: Bürgermeister Nr. |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse, largely unprinted, with a pale blue ghost underprint of a decorative motif visible at centre. To the left, a caricature vignette of a town crier in uniform coat and peaked cap, holding a hand bell aloft in one hand and a document in the other. To the upper right, the denomination '50' with a Pfennig symbol enclosed within a bold circle. Below, a block of Gothic text sets out the redemption and validity conditions of the voucher. The printer's imprint appears at lower left in small italic script. |
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Strelitz-Alt — the older of the two towns that would merge in 1931 to form Neustrelitz — issued this note during the height of the German Kleingeldnot, the small-change famine that paralyzed retail commerce in the early Weimar years. Coin metal had been hoarded and melted throughout the war, and by 1921 municipalities across Mecklenburg were printing their own fractional notes out of practical necessity, with no central authorization beyond local desperation.
Hofbuchdrucker Bohls Nachfolger — literally the successor firm to the court printer Bohl — was the obvious choice for a job like this, being already established in Neustrelitz for official printing work.