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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Crivitz (City of Crivitz) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Turquoise-green reverse with a bold black lower panel, printed in a graphic woodcut-style idiom. The central vignette shows a pipe-smoking man in working clothes seated atop a tall iron wood-burning stove, his legs crossed and one hand raised; a large stack of split firewood logs fills the left foreground, referencing Crivitz's timber trade. The denomination '50 PFENNIG' and the inscription 'NOTGELD DER STADT CRIVITZ' are rendered in large block lettering across the dark lower register, with a small artist's signature visible at lower right of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG NOTGELD DER STADT CRIVITZ |
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Crivitz is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed World War One. The proliferation of these emergency issues was so vast — tens of thousands of distinct types from 1916 onward — that the Reichsbank eventually moved to suppress them in 1922, fearing the inflationary signal they sent. Many town councils, Crivitz among them, issued far more than local circulation required, because collector demand had turned Notgeld into a minor revenue stream by 1921.