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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ludwigslust (City of Ludwigslust) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green Notgeld note with a decorative floral and leaf border enclosing the central design. At upper centre, the city arms of Ludwigslust — a quartered shield with a crowned griffin — is set within a rectangular cartouche flanked by the inscriptions 'Notgeld' and 'der Stadt', itself framed by stylised vine tendrils. The denomination '50 Pfennige' appears in large numerals at both left and right. Below the arms the city name 'Lüdwigslüst' is printed in Gothic script, followed by three facsimile signatures under the designations 'Bürgermstr.', 'Stadtsekr.' (on behalf of 'Der Rat der Stadt') and 'Der Stadtverordneten-Vorsteher'. A serial number and validity strip at the foot reads 'gültig vom 1. März ... bis 30. Sept. 1922'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt 50 Pfennige Lüdwigslüst Der Rat der Stadt Bürgermstr. Stadtsekr. Der Stadtverordneten-Vorsteher gültig vom 1. März bis 30. Sept. 1922 |
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Ludwigslust is a small Mecklenburg town that owed its entire existence to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin's decision to relocate its court there in the eighteenth century. By 1922, the Weimar inflation crisis had forced even minor municipalities to print their own emergency money — Notgeld — to plug the gap left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage. The Stadt Ludwigslust issued this 50 Pfennig note as part of a local series catalogued under the DeNG reference, a decimal numbering system later compiled by Manfred Müller.
The suffix variants .2-3/6 indicate distinct print runs or paper stocks within the same face design — a distinction that matters to completists but rarely affects value dramatically at this denomination.