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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Grabow (City of Grabow an der Elde) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned Notgeld note with a dark blue printed border carrying Low German dialect verses running along all four margins. At centre, the crowned municipal coat of arms of Grabow — a crescent moon with a face profile accompanied by four six-pointed stars on a blue shield — forms the primary vignette. The denomination '50 Penning' appears in large Gothic blackletter numerals at upper left and upper right, with 'Not-Geld' and 'Stadt Grabow' inscribed beneath respectively; at the base, a validity clause and expiry date 30. Juni 1922 are accompanied by manuscript facsimile signatures of civic officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kiekt vnsen Grabow'sch Maand eins an, Dos't möglich, dat dat angahn kann Dorüverfreut hei sick so dull Nur lacht hei jo un is so holl 50 Penning Not-Geld Stadt Grabow Disse Schien gellt bet tau'n 30. Juni 1922 Dei Rat tau Grabow Dei Stadtverordneten-Vörsitter |
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Grabow an der Elde, a small market town in Mecklenburg, issued this Notgeld piece during the hyperinflationary spiral that made official Reichsbank coinage effectively worthless as a transactional medium. By 1922, even 50-Pfennig denominations in coin had vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply inadequate for daily commerce as prices lurched upward week by week. Municipalities across Germany filled the gap themselves, printing emergency scrip with no central authorization beyond local necessity.
Grabow's series is among hundreds of such small-town issues, unremarkable in administrative origin but typical of the period's decentralized monetary improvisation.