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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Neustettin |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 July 1923 |
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| Obverse description | Dark-ground letterpress Notgeld note printed in black, red, and yellow. The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Neustettin — a black eagle on a gold shield holding a fish — flanked on each side by a red rosette bearing the denomination numeral '50 Pf.' in bold black type. The issuing authority 'DER MAGISTRAT' appears at lower right alongside manuscript facsimile signatures, with the place name 'NEUSTETTIN' and date '15. NOVEMBER 1921' at lower left. A three-line redemption notice in German occupies the lower panel, with the printer's imprint 'Druck von Adolf Forker Leipzig' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, grey, and black, the reverse carries a scenic vignette of Schloss Neustettin as it stood between circa 1310 and 1618, rendered in an expressionist graphic style by the artist Wenner-Collenbey. The multi-gabled castle rises from the water's edge, its reflection rendered in the lake below, with a solitary figure in a rowing boat in the foreground. The denomination '50 PFENNIG 50' is set in a dark header band at the top, and the caption 'SCHLOSS · NEUSTETTIN · UM · 1310 · BIS · 1618 ·' appears in a dark footer band at the bottom, with the artist's signature visible at the lower left of the vignette. |
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Neustettin — now Szczecinek in northwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Pomeranian town whose municipal authority issued this note amid the acute small-change shortage that plagued German commerce in the early Weimar years. The Reichsbank's inability to keep low-denomination coins in circulation forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own Kleingeldersatz, and Neustettin was one of thousands to do so.
Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer responsible for a large volume of provincial Notgeld; the designer credit to Wenner-Collenbey is more unusual — individual designer attributions on municipal emergency notes of this period are uncommon enough to suggest the town invested more care in presentation than strictly necessary.