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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Plathe (Pommern) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed in red-orange with a central vignette in green and earth tones showing the Blücher ruin (Blücherruine), a medieval castle remnant set amid dense foliage above an open landscape. The left panel carries the payment text in Gothic blackletter script, with a hatched 'Konto A' box at lower left, while the right panel bears the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' above two manuscript signatures. The issuer's title 'Die städtische Sparkasse Plathe (Pom.)' is inscribed in a cartouche along the top border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on a yellow-ochre ground and divided into three registers. At centre top, the Pomeranian coat of arms — a red griffin on a white shield — is flanked by two circular vignettes: at left, a standing figure admonishing a crouching child, and at right, a figure raising a stick over a cowering person, both rendered in red-brown line illustration. A cartouche in the centre carries a verse in German, and Low German dialect captions appear beneath each flanking scene. Denomination shields marked '50 PF' appear in the upper corners, and the printer's imprint 'H. Susenbeth, Stettin' is set at the lower margin. |
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Plathe was a small Pomeranian market town — today Płoty, in northwestern Poland — and its municipal savings bank was among thousands of German local institutions forced into emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1921–1923. The Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coin and note for daily transactions, so municipalities, businesses, and utilities printed their own. H. Susenbeth in Stettin was a regional workhorse printer for exactly this kind of Kleingeldersatz work across Pommern.
The DeNG reference covers three or four minor variants under 1060.1–3/4, likely differing in serial number color or control markings rather than plate design — a common pattern for provincial Notgeld runs of this period.