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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Brüel (City of Brüel) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey with ochre accent tones, enclosed within a decorative barbed-wire style border typical of Notgeld issues. A large central vignette, framed by an ornate cartouche, presents a view of a prominent civic or ecclesiastical building in Brüel, before which two figures in period dress stand beside a basket of goods, evoking a market scene. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears twice in large Gothic numerals in the lower left and lower right corners, while the town name 'Brüel' is rendered in bold Gothic lettering at the bottom centre. The inscription 'Reutergeld der Stadt' arches across the upper portion of the design. The artist's name 'Richard Zscheked' appears in the upper right corner. |
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| Signature(s) | Baumann and Winklmoo |
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Brüel is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 1921 date places this issue in the later phase of municipal Notgeld production, by which point many towns had shifted from purely functional scrip toward artistically ambitious designs intended to attract collector demand, a practice that generated real revenue for cash-strapped local administrations.
Richard Zscheked's involvement as designer is the one distinguishing detail here. The series reference DeNG 1/2#0191.1-3/3 indicates three variants, likely differentiated by color or minor design alteration rather than denomination change.