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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neustadt am Rübenberge (City of Neustadt am Rübenberge) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#967.1-6/6 |
| Obverse description | Black-ground Notgeld note with a central diamond-framed vignette of Schloss Neustadt a.D. 1654, a panoramic view of the castle and its surrounding landscape rendered in fine line work. Two circular medallions at left and right each carry the red numeral '50' on a grey ground, flanked by grey foliate scroll ornaments. At lower centre, the town arms — a heraldic shield with twin towers and a lion — is printed in red and grey, while a validity notice and the issuing authority signature of Der Magistrat appear in the lower left and right panels respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Warm rose and ochre ground with a black border, the centre occupied by a detailed vignette of the Große Leinbrücke (Great Leine Bridge) in Neustadt a.Rbge., rendered in brown-black line work against a coloured landscape of trees and sky. Flanking side panels each carry a stylised turnip (Rübe) motif in green and red — a punning heraldic reference to the town name — on a black ground. The denomination '50' appears in the lower left and right corners, and the inscription '50 PFENNIG' is set in bold block lettering across the lower border. |
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Neustadt am Rübenberge is a small town in the Hannover region, and this note is precisely the kind of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany in 1921 as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denomination coinage in circulation. Städte across Lower Saxony issued their own Notgeld rather than wait for central supply — a practical response, not a political one.
The DeNG reference places this as one of six variants in the 967 series, suggesting the town issued a full run of denominations or design types simultaneously. Whether all six circulated equally or some were held back as collector pieces from the outset is a question the surviving population of each variant tends to answer on its own.