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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Gollnow (City of Gollnow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Yellow, blue, and purple Notgeld note with ornate Art Nouveau floral borders in green, blue, and yellow on both lateral margins, each containing the denomination "50 Pf" in vertical arrangement. The central field carries a large silhouette vignette of two female figures — labelled "Anne Susann" and "Leenie Gilet" — set within an oval scene beneath a colonnade with a crowd in the background, numbered "4" at lower right. Verse inscriptions in Fraktur script appear in rectangular panels above and below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Die eine kummt, der Ruhe satt, daß laucht das Volk ringsum im Bad: "Anne Susanne, Anne Susann, kumm mit, kumm mit, kumm mit to Lann" Anne Susann Leenie Gilet |
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Gollnow — now Goleniów in northwestern Poland — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Notgeld during the inflationary chaos of the early 1920s when the Reichsbank could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The printer, Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, specialized in Künstlerdruck — artist-quality printing — and supplied notgeld commissions to numerous towns across Germany, which is why the production quality often exceeded what the face value would suggest.
Gollnow's series is not among the heavily documented collector sets, and surviving examples in clean condition are modestly scarce rather than common.