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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Neukalen |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 31 May 1922 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-black with a salmon-pink underprint. The denomination numeral '50' and the text 'PFENNIG' appear in large display lettering at the upper left. The central vignette shows three storks in flight against a cloud-shaped salmon background, with a silhouetted townscape — including a church steeple and figures gazing skyward — rendered in the lower portion. A four-line verse in Low German dialect is printed in Gothic (Fraktur) script in the central field, followed by the validity inscription and the issuing authority. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-black with a warm salmon-pink underprint. The denomination '50 Pfennig' is rendered in large ornate script at the upper left. The central vignette presents a pastoral scene of the town of Neukalen, with the Gothic church tower rising prominently behind thatched-roof farm buildings and trees; in the foreground, two white cattle graze while a milkmaid in traditional dress tends to them. The lower register carries the inscriptions 'REUTER GELD' in bold block letters and 'NEUKALEN' in large capitals, identifying this note as part of the locally issued Reuter commemorative series. |
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Neukalen is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and its 1922 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency money — the inflationary series issued by local authorities when Reichsbank coin and small-denomination notes simply stopped circulating due to hoarding and metal shortages. The Rat der Stadt, the town council, had direct authority to authorize these issues without central approval, which is why thousands of distinct German municipal types exist from this period.
Neukalen's series is not among the widely documented "collector-bait" notgeld designed purely for the philatelic trade, which had become a significant problem by 1922 — many small issuers printed elaborate pictorial sets with no intention of genuine circulation.