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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Marne (City of Marne) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld note in Jugendstil style with a bold wave-pattern guilloche border in green, black, and grey. The central vignette portrays a dramatic coastal rescue scene with figures in a storm-tossed boat amid crashing waves, overlaid at centre by the circular municipal seal of Marne bearing the Latin legend 'SIGILLVM VNIVERSITATIS TERE-LETHMARCIE'. Denomination numerals '50' and 'Pf.' appear in red circular cartouches at left and right, with Gothic script inscriptions across the upper and lower margins and the serial number and two facsimile signatures of Stadt Marne-Dithmarschen officials below the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gi-Histaht Garnör- Gi-möt Hendör! Nr. 04868 Stadt Marne-Dithmarscher Bürgermeister Gültig bis 1. Jan. 1922 SIGILLVM VNIVERSITATIS TERE-LETHMARCIE O.S. |
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Marne is a small market town in the Dithmarschen district of Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it resorted to printing its own emergency currency during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These Kleingeldersatz notes filled the gap left by hoarded metal coinage — a problem that had begun as early as 1916 and worsened sharply by 1918–1919.
Langebartels & Jürgens in Altona handled a substantial volume of Notgeld printing for northern German municipalities during this period, which means production quality here is competent but unremarkable. The interest is civic and archival rather than technical.