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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Parchim (City of Parchim) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Rathaus u. St. Georg Dieser Schein verliert drei Monate nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung seine Gültigkeit. Parchim d. 1. Oct. 1921 Der Rat. ENTW: P. GOSSEL |
| Reverse description | Green and yellow multicolour note divided into three vertical panels. The central panel carries a profile portrait vignette of Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder in intaglio-style engraving above the full-colour arms of Parchim — a red shield charged with a bull's head beneath a crown, supported by draped ribbons in green, white, and red. The denomination '50 Pfg.' appears in bold Gothic blackletter in the upper corners of the flanking panels, which contain Low German dialect verses; the bottom of the note bears the legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Parchim' in large Gothic script, with the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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Parchim's 1921 Notgeld issues were among hundreds of municipal emergency currencies flooding northern Germany as the central government struggled to maintain coin supplies during the postwar inflation spiral. What distinguishes this particular 50 Pfennig note is the design credit to P. Gossel — Notgeld pieces with individually named designers are less common than those produced from stock Borchers templates, suggesting the city commissioned original artwork rather than pulling from the printer's catalog.
Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck handled Notgeld contracts across Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg during this period, with consistent print quality.