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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amtsausschuss Neustadt in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a vibrant multicolour palette on a dark ground, with large white denomination numerals '50' at upper left and right flanking the bold heading 'SAMOA' at top centre. A panoramic vignette of the harbour of Apia (captioned 'HAFEN · APIA') fills the central arch, rendered in blue, green, and ochre tones with palm trees in the foreground, small vessels on the water, and mountainous terrain in the distance. A lower text panel carries a verse by Th. Körner: 'HINTER · UNS · IM GRAUN · DER · NÄCHTE · LIEGT · DIE · SCHANDE · LIEGT · DIE · SCHMACH,' |
| Reverse lettering | 50 SAMOA 50 · HAFEN · APIA · HINTER · UNS · IM · GRAUN · DER · NÄCHTE · LIEGT · DIE · SCHANDE · LIEGT · DIE · SCHMACH, · TH. KÖRNER |
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Neustadt in Mecklenburg is a small town, and like hundreds of German municipalities in the early 1920s, its local administrative body — the Amtsausschuss — issued Notgeld to plug the gap left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage. The hyperinflationary spiral had not yet peaked in 1922, but the coin shortage had been grinding on since the war years, making low-value paper issues a practical necessity at the local level rather than a political gesture.
The designer credit to "Heinberg" is noted in the literature but has not been conclusively tied to a known commercial artist or printing firm.