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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstand Dassow i/M (Municipality of Dassow) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic vignette in blue, orange, and dark green occupies most of the reverse, rendered in a loose illustrative style and signed 'Richard Zschemed' at lower right; it shows the village of Dassow with a red-tiled church tower rising above tree-lined rooftops across a wide grain field under a pale sky with flying birds. The denomination '50 Pfennig' is set in large decorative script at the upper right, while an orange ornamental border with stylised foliate corners frames the entire composition. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Reutergeld Dassow i/m |
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Dassow is a small market town on the Mecklenburg Baltic coast, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921–22, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coins being hoarded or melted during the inflationary spiral. Richard Zschemed's involvement is noteworthy: he was a Leipzig-based commercial artist who contributed designs to several Mecklenburg Notgeld series, giving these local issues a degree of graphic professionalism unusual for notes of such purely functional origin.
The DeNG reference places this within the third subtype of the Dassow series, suggesting at least minor design or printing variations exist between the three catalogued issues.