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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Schönberg in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-brown notgeld note with a decorative cartouche border enclosing a central oval vignette of a Gothic church tower amid trees, rendered in a fine line-art style. To the left of the vignette, a stanza in Low German dialect is printed in italic script; to the right, the validity clause and the issuing authority "Rat der Stadt Schönberg i. M." appear above three facsimile signatures. The denomination "FÜNFZIG PFENNIG" is lettered in bold block capitals across the upper field. |
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| Reverse description | Pale rose and olive-brown note divided horizontally into two registers: the upper half carries a panoramic line-engraved vignette of the Schönberg townscape seen across a reed-fringed lake, with a church spire rising above the roofline; an artist's signature appears in the lower right of the vignette. The lower register, printed on a stippled rose ground, displays the large numeral "50" and abbreviation "PF." to the left, with the inscriptions "SCHOENBERG / DIE STADT / IM LANDE RATZEBURG" to the right. The heading "REUTERGELD" is set in a separate banner at the very top of the note. |
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Schönberg, a small market town in Mecklenburg, issued this Notgeld note during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922, when municipal and local authorities across Germany were forced to produce their own emergency small-change currency because official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded or melted as metal values outpaced face values. The Rat der Stadt (town council) acted as issuer, a common arrangement for smaller Mecklenburg communities without a standing savings institution to manage the process.
The DeNG catalog reference places this within a tightly documented local series. Schönberg issues from this period are not among the rarer Mecklenburg Notgeld, but the 1922 paper issues attract more specialist attention than the earlier linen-substitute types.