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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Warin (City of Warin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Einst güng veel Süfzen dörch Warin; De Seufzerbrügg Dann müßt ne nige Brügg dat fin; Notgeld der Stadt Warin i/M Nu füfzt dat dörch dei ganze Welt, Un wirt blot naß papiern Geld; Warin Gültig bis 1. März 1922 Der Rat Stadtverordnetenvorsteher |
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| Signature(s) | Der Rat; Stadtverordnetenvorsteher F. Moser |
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Warin is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. What lifts this particular series above the typical run of emergency scrip is the involvement of Richard Zschoner as designer and the Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin as printer — the latter was one of the more reputable regional print houses in Mecklenburg, with a long history of official commissions well before the Notgeld boom.
The dual signatures — from the municipal council and the Stadtverordnetenvorsteher F. Moser — reflect the formal authorization structure required even for low-denomination emergency issues.