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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goldberg (City of Goldberg in Mecklenburg) |
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| In circulation to | 31 May 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT GOLDBERG 50 PFENNIG Einem jeden Menschen ist sein Maß und Ziel gesetzt; Ich verstehe dies nicht bloß von der Zeit seines Lebens, sondern auch von den Erscheinungen im Leben, von Freude und Kummer; je mehr Kummer Du jetzt erduldest, desto weniger hast Du vor Dir. Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis zum 31. Mai 1922. Der Rat der Stadt Goldberg. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in salmon-orange and dark blue, with a woodcut-style rural vignette occupying the central field: two figures in traditional Low German peasant dress stand before a thatched farmstead with smoke rising in the background. The header panel at top carries the Notgeld series title and issuer name in bold block type, while the denomination appears in large numerals and text at lower left, rendered in the same woodcut aesthetic consistent with the Reuter-Geld thematic series. |
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Goldberg is a small town in Mecklenburg whose municipal notgeld program was typical of thousands of German localities printing emergency small-change notes after coinage disappeared from circulation during and after the First World War. The Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate fractional coinage left cities and towns to fend for themselves, and Stadt Goldberg was among the wave of issuers who plugged that gap between roughly 1917 and 1922.
Mecklenburg notgeld from smaller municipalities tends to survive in reasonable quantity — much was collected rather than spent, which is why genuinely circulated examples can be harder to find than pristine ones.