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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Badeverwaltung Heiligendamm (Municipality of Heiligendamm) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Bold expressionist-style letterpress vignette at centre presents a female figure astride a large sea creature amid stylised waves, printed in red, yellow, blue and black inks. The large red numeral '50' and the blue denomination legend 'PFENNIG' are set centrally, flanked by jagged lightning-bolt ornaments, with the issuer inscription 'OSTSEEBAD HEILIGENDAMM' arching beneath the vignette; a Low German verse within a framed panel runs across the top margin. A scrolled ribbon at the foot carries the validity clause alongside the issuing authority designation 'DIE BADEVERWALTUNG' and a handwritten signature with the title 'Ortsvorsteher'. |
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| Obverse lettering | För de Freud' an Braden un Kaufen un Schampagner ward de Minsch mit de Wil'tau olt für die Freude an schönem Menschenwerk und Gottes Herrlichkeit wird er nie zu alt! PFENNIG 50 OSTSEEBAD HEILIGENDAMM Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb des Ortsgebietes bis 28. 2. 1922 DIE BADEVERWALTUNG: Ortsvorsteher |
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Heiligendamm, on the Mecklenburg Baltic coast, holds the distinction of being Germany's oldest seaside resort — founded in 1793 by Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Badeverwaltung, the spa administration, issued this Notgeld during the hyperinflationary pressure of 1922, when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation and resort towns across Germany were printing their own emergency fractional notes to keep transactions moving through the tourist season.
Egon Tschirch was a Rostock-based painter and graphic artist closely associated with Mecklenburg regionalism. His involvement lifts this well above the mass-produced Serienscheine churned out purely for collector sales that flooded the market in the same period.