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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bad Kleinen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in mauve-purple and yellow on a light ground, with a plain ruled outer border. A large semicircular vignette in yellow underprint fills the upper portion, presenting a tranquil lakeside harbour scene with moored rowing boats, a wooden jetty, and a wooded far bank rendered in detailed line-art. The numeral 50 in large outline figures flanks the word PFENNIG at the top corners. The lower panel, set against a purple ground with horizontal ruling, carries the designation REUTERGELD above the bold inscription BAD KLEINEN i. M. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 REUTERGELD BAD KLEINEN i. M. |
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Bad Kleinen is a small railway junction town in Mecklenburg, notable mainly as the point where the lines from Lübeck and Wismar converge before heading toward Schwerin. Its 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast second wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as chronic coin shortages and accelerating inflation made official small denominations functionally useless. By mid-1922 the Reichsbank had effectively ceded the pfennig denominations to any town willing to print them.
The issuing authority here is the municipality itself, not a savings bank or merchant consortium — a detail worth noting, as it affects redemption liability and explains why so many of these pieces were simply never presented for exchange.