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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Grevesmühlen, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Grevesmühlen i/Meckl. Dieser Schein verliert mit dem 31. Dezember 1923 seine Gültigkeit Grevesmühlen Der Rat der Stadt von lither Brämer Sauer Der Stadtverordnetenvorsteher: Sauer (Translation: Notgeld of the city of Grevesmühlen in Mecklenburg. This note loses its validity on 31 December 1923. Grevesmühlen. The City Council. [signed] Brämer, Sauer. The head of the city council: Sauer.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Wenn uns dei Heister stahlen hett Ok Gold und Edelstein, För 50 Penning sünd noch gaud De `Grevesmöhlner Kreihn`. (Translation: When the magpie has stolen our gold and gemstones, the 'Grevesmühlner crows' are still good for 50 pfennigs.) |
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Grevesmühlen is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had plagued daily commerce since the war. Printed locally by Korn & Salchow, this note never left the immediate district in any practical sense; Notgeld of this type was redeemable only within the issuing community and typically called in within months.
The watermarked paper is worth noting — many municipal printers of this period used whatever stock was available, making a security feature of this kind slightly above the norm for town-level issues.