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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Friedland i. M. |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries two heraldic shields flanking the large numeral '50', the left shield bearing a fortified tower with armoured figures, the right a bull's head with horns. Below the shields, a Low German verse in four lines is set within a decorative panel. The central vignette presents a silhouetted church steeple rendered in black against a radiating orange-amber sunburst underprint, with the denomination 'Fünfzig' and 'Pfennig' in bold vertical letterpress at left and right respectively. The lower panel carries the validity clause and the issuing authority inscription, with three manuscript signatures beneath. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in terracotta-red and black, dominated by a large vignette of the historic Friedland church with its robust Romanesque tower, surrounded by trees and flanked by adjoining buildings, executed in a bold woodcut-style line engraving. The denomination '50 Pf. Reutergeld' appears in decorative script across the top, and the place name 'Friedland i. M.' is set in large open lettering within a plain lower panel. An artist's signature and the year 1921 are inscribed in the lower left of the vignette. |
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Friedland in Mecklenburg was a small town of no great commercial weight, and its 1922 Notgeld issue reflects exactly that — a local authority printing emergency small-change scrip because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough low-denomination coins during the hyperinflationary spiral. The Rat der Stadt had no sophisticated printing operation; most Mecklenburg town issues of this period were produced by regional jobbing printers on whatever stock was available, which is why paper quality varies considerably within the same series.
These small municipal issues were technically valid only locally and for a short redemption window. Most were spent quickly or discarded, making intact survivors more common than heavily circulated ones — an inversion of the usual survival pattern.