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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Labes (Magistrat der Stadt Labes i. Pom.) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green and yellow Notgeld note with a decorative banner scroll at top centre bearing the issuing authority inscription. At centre, the town arms — a crowned wolf passant on a shield dated 1400 — is set within an elaborate wreath of wheat ears. Denomination panels reading '50 Pfennig' appear in hexagonal frames at left and right. A lower panel in a contrasting tint carries the validity clause and the issuance date, signed by Der Magistrat. |
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| Reverse description | Green-toned reverse with denomination numerals '50' in hexagonal cartouches at upper left and right, flanked by wheat-ear ornaments. A large oval guilloche underprint at centre left frames an interior vignette of two elderly figures seated at a table set for tea, rendered in fine letterpress style, illustrating a scene of domestic life. A lower text panel carries a four-line verse in Gothic script. |
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Labes — now Łobez in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency (Notgeld) to cope with the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the early Weimar Republic. What makes this particular note mildly unusual is that the printer, Otto Schimmelpfennig, was a local firm operating within the town itself — a detail worth noting because most Pomeranian Notgeld of this period was farmed out to larger regional or Berlin-based printers.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1d through .1/4) indicate minor typographical or color distinctions within the same issue run.