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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Köslin, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The centre of the reverse is occupied by a large circular vignette reproducing the medieval city seal of Köslin, with the Latin legend 'SIGILLVM CIVITATIS' around the border and a polychrome image of a bishop standing beneath a Gothic baldachin flanked by heraldic eagles. Bold floral and tulip-scroll borders in red fill all four corners of the cream note, with denomination numerals '50 Pf.' repeated in each corner. A cautionary text at the top states that the note loses validity one month after public announcement, and a six-line German verse in Gothic script occupies a ruled panel at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. 50 Pf. SIGILLVM CIVITATIS Willst an der Zukunft du verzagen? Sieh unsern Gollen trutzig ragen! Er sah in böser Zeiten Lauf Nachtschwarze Unheilswolken jagen, Sah stets auch neues frührot tagen Und reckt sein Haupt zur Sonne auf. |
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Köslin's 1921 Kleingeldscheine series belongs to the peak of Germany's Notgeld mania, when hundreds of municipalities printed their own small-denomination emergency scrip to fill the coin vacuum created by wartime hoarding and postwar metal shortages. What makes this particular issue notable is that both the printing house and the city it served were one and the same place — Arthur Kolterjahn's Kunstverlag operated locally in Köslin, a rarity in a period when most smaller towns outsourced to Leipzig or Berlin printers chasing the collector trade.
Designer O. Thämer is otherwise little documented outside regional Pomeranian Notgeld records.