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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neubukow (City of Neubukow) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette rendered in fine line engraving style shows a peasant farmer with cattle in a field, with a panoramic view of Neubukow's skyline and church steeples in the background. The issuer name "STADT" and "NEUBUKOW" appears flanking the vignette in bold yellow Gothic lettering, with denomination numerals "50" in large yellow figures at lower left and right, each accompanied by the word "PFENNIG" above. A Low German dialect motto in Gothic script occupies the upper panel, and the validity clause with the issuing authority's manuscript signature runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Jau'm Verstiren mag dat woll sin, aewer tau'm Verzagen is dat noch lang'nich! STADT NEUBUKOW PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG 50 GÜLTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DES STADTGEBIETES BIS 31. MAI 1922. DER RAT DER STADT NEUBUKOW |
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Neubukow is a small town in Mecklenburg with one genuine claim to numismatic fame: it was the birthplace of Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist who excavated Troy. The city leaned into this — Schliemann's connection was a point of local pride, and Tschirch, a Rostock-based painter and graphic artist with strong regional ties, was a natural choice for designing Notgeld that carried some cultural weight rather than purely functional filler.
Egon Tschirch produced some of the more artistically considered Notgeld in the Mecklenburg region during the early 1920s inflationary period. Whether this note was issued as a single denomination or part of a series with companion values is worth confirming before cataloging as a standalone piece.