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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Warnemünde, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | P#GrM:1379.1-3/3 |
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| Obverse lettering | WARNEMÜNDE 50 PF. Dat bost Mäddel för Truer un Leid, Dat is Kameraden ehr Hartlichkeit. DIESER SCHEIN GILT NUR IM INNEREN ORTSVERKEHR BIS ZUM 31. MAI 1922 DIE BADEVERWALTUNG: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a dynamic full-bleed vignette in violet and yellow, executed in an energetic Art Nouveau woodcut style, showing a fisherman hauling a large sail or net from a boat amid turbulent, stylised breaking waves. At lower left, the large denomination numeral '50' is rendered in bold yellow, followed by the inscription PFENNIG in ornate lettering, with REUTER GELD and WARNEMÜNDE inscribed below in matching decorative block script integrated into the wave design. |
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Warnemünde's 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany during the hyperinflationary spiral following the First World War. Small coastal towns like Warnemünde — the Baltic fishing and ferry port at the mouth of the Warnow — issued their own Kleingeld not merely out of necessity but often with a deliberate eye toward the collector market, a phenomenon that had become a recognized commercial enterprise by 1921–22.
The GrM reference places this within the Grabowski-Mehl Notgeld catalog, series 1379, with three known variants distinguished by design or color differences rather than date. Collectors should note that third-variant examples of this series circulate less freely on the secondary market than the first two.