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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neubrandenburg (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 30 June 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg gegründet 1248 Neubrandenburg den 2. Juli 1921 der Rat die Stadtverordneten 50 Einlösung durch die Stadtkasse bis zum 30. Juni 1922 LOUIS KOCH - HALBERSTADT |
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| Reverse lettering | Neubrandenburg 50 |
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Neubrandenburg's 1921 Pfennig notgeld series falls squarely in the middle of the great German municipal currency boom — by that year, thousands of towns were commissioning decorative small-denomination emergency notes, partly from genuine small-change shortages and partly as deliberate collectibles sold to satisfy a voracious philatelic market. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a mid-tier provincial printer who handled commissions from numerous northern German municipalities during this period.
The DeNG reference suffix ".2a-5/9" indicates this is one of several design variants within the series — Koch's Halberstadt operation typically ran such series with minor color or vignette differences across the same denomination to encourage complete-set collecting.