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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neustadt in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour letterpress vignette at centre portrays a medieval brick tower and fortification wall — captioned 'DIE ALTE BURG' — reflected in a foreground pond, set against a luminous sky with trees and rolling hills. The denomination '50 · NEUSTADT i.M. · 50' runs across the top in bold dark type on a blue panel. Flanking text panels carry two German-language verse inscriptions in a decorative dot-separated typeface, enclosed within a patterned border of alternating yellow and blue ornamental motifs. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 · NEUSTADT i.M. · 50 DAS ALTE STÜRZT; ES ÄNDERT SICH DIE ZEIT; U. NEUES LEBEN BLÜHT AUS DEN RUINEN DIE WELT WIRD SCHÖNER MIT JEDEM TAG MAN WEISS NICHT; WAS NOCH WERDEN MAG DIE ALTE BURG |
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Neustadt in Mecklenburg was one of hundreds of small German municipalities that resorted to Notgeld during the postwar inflationary spiral, when federal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and melting. What distinguishes this particular issue is the printer: Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin held a long-standing reputation as a quality regional press, and their involvement in emergency municipal currency gave even small-denomination scrip a degree of typographic care unusual for the format.
The designer credit to Heinberg is notable — named designers on Kleingeldscheine are far from universal, suggesting the municipality made a deliberate aesthetic commission rather than simply ordering stock artwork.