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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Treuenbrietzen (City of Treuenbrietzen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 103 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Treuenbrietzen DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DEN STADTKASSEN IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 1 MONAT NACH ERFOLGTER BEKANNTMACHUNG VERLIERT Ausgegeben im Juli 1921 Der Magistrat DRUCK: J.A. SCHWARZ LINDENBERG i.ALLGÄU. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig 50 50 Der falsche Waldemar sucht sich der Stadt Treuenbrietzen zu bemächtigen und wird vor den Toren abgewiesen. |
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Treuenbrietzen is a small Brandenburg town with a population that barely justified its own emergency currency, but like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued notgeld anyway — partly out of necessity as coin shortages persisted well past the armistice, and partly because the collector market had turned municipal scrip into a minor revenue stream. Towns competed for attractive designs knowing philatelic demand would keep much of the print run permanently unspent.
J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a prolific notgeld printer serving municipalities far outside its immediate region, a detail that underscores how industrialized the whole enterprise had become by 1921.