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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Preetz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic polychrome vignette of the town of Preetz in Holstein, rendered in a flat, expressionist graphic style signed 'O. Kahler' at lower right. A Romanesque church tower rises above red-roofed buildings on the left, set within a broad landscape of meadows, trees, and a river or lake in the middle ground, with further townscape extending to the right horizon. Above the vignette, the legend '50 Preeßer 50' is printed in bold red Gothic lettering on a beige ground, while 'Notgeld.' appears in matching script below, flanked on each side by a stylised anchor device. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Preeßer 50 Notgeld. |
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Preetz is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its local Magistrat issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to address the chronic shortage of coins that had persisted since the war. The federal government tolerated rather than authorized these issues, and many were printed by regional jobbing printers with modest means. O. Kahler's credit as designer is unusual enough to be worth noting; most Kleingeldscheine of this type were anonymous productions.