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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Dassow |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Borchers G.m.b.H., Lübeck, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The left two-thirds of the reverse carry the historical coat of arms of Dassow (Dertzowe) set on a blue ground, executed in colour lithograph and signed by the artist Cliemsen; the shield is divided into a red-and-white lozengy field with a golden lower quarter bearing a black lion, surmounted by an elaborate scrollwork mantling and a Moorish-head crest holding a red-and-white flag. The inscription 'Wappen derer von Dassow (Dertzowe)' appears in the upper portion of the armorial panel. To the right, a yellow vertical panel contains three stacked cartouches with guilloche underprint borders, bearing in Fraktur script the denomination '50 Pfennig', the word 'Notgeld', and 'Dassow in M.' |
| Reverse lettering | Wappen derer von Dassow (Dertzowe) 50 Pfennig Notgeld Dassow in M. |
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Dassow is a small town on the Trave estuary in Mecklenburg, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places it firmly in the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by then less about genuine coin shortages and more about local revenue from collector demand. Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist currency house, which is typical of the smaller Mecklenburg issues where municipalities contracted whatever local firm could handle short runs.
The 1921 date matters: inflation was accelerating but hyperinflation had not yet arrived. These issues were denominated in pfennig precisely because that still made arithmetic sense.