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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Neuruppin (City of Neuruppin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue, the obverse is dominated by a central vignette of the Fontane-Denkmal (Fontane Monument), sculpted by M. Wiese, set within a large laurel wreath, with a panoramic townscape of Neuruppin and the Ruppiner See in the right background, captioned 'Bienenwalde'. A decorative banner at the top carries a patriotic verse in Gothic script. To the lower right, a text block sets out the redemption conditions, dated Neuruppin, August 1921, followed by the issuing authority 'DER MAGISTRAT' with two facsimile signatures, and the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same dark blue, presents a central arched vignette of Neuruppin's Gothic church towering above the landscape, its spires bathed in radiating sunrays, with a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough in the foreground — an allegory of local industry and rural life. Denomination numerals '50' appear at upper left and upper right flanking the arch, and a motto in Gothic script runs along the upper arch. A rectangular panel at the base bears the denomination legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold Gothic lettering between two small bee ornaments, while series and serial number are printed below the vignette. |
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Neuruppin's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that German towns printed to alleviate the severe small-change shortage following the First World War. What makes this particular piece marginally more interesting than the average Kleingeldscheine is the printer: E. Buchbinder, operating under the H. Duske imprint, was a local Neuruppin firm — meaning the note was conceived, designed, and produced entirely within the town that issued it, an unusually self-contained arrangement.
Neuruppin itself is best known as the birthplace of Theodor Fontane, though that connection had no bearing on the note's production or design mandate.