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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brunshaupten (Municipality of Brunshaupten) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | So sleiht de See des Morgens in wille Bülgen, un des Middags stünd sei ebener worden, aewer düster un bedenklich liggt dat noch aewer dat Water, un des Abends lücht't ut den glatten Speigel de blage Heven, un helle Sommerwolken trecken doraewer hen, un de Abendsünn fölt dat Bild in ehren gold'nen Rahmen. OSTSEE=BAD BRUNS=HAUPTEN GÜLTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DES ORTSGEBIETES BIS 31. MAI 1922. DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND: |
| Reverse description | A central rectangular vignette in fine line illustration renders a panoramic view of Brunshaupten's Baltic seaside resort waterfront, with bathers, a flag-topped pavilion and townscape visible across the water. The vignette is flanked on the left by an ornate cartouche with leaping fish emerging from waves and on the right by a seahorse amid scrolling sea-foam, both rendered in a bold Art Nouveau graphic style. The heading 'Reutergeld' in large ornamental script occupies the upper panel against a yellow ground, while the lower register carries the denomination '50' with 'PF' at each side and the inscriptions 'OSTSEEBAD' and 'BRUNSHAUPTEN' in contrasting yellow and black block lettering. |
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Brunshaupten was a small Baltic coast resort town in Mecklenburg — the sort of place that issued Notgeld not out of genuine coin shortage by 1922, but because the local tourist trade had turned emergency currency into a souvenir business. Series like this one were printed in far greater quantities than any local economy required, sold to visiting collectors, and often never returned for redemption. The issuing municipality bore little real financial risk.
Econ Tschirch was a Mecklenburg regional artist whose name appears on several Notgeld commissions from this period. Worth noting for provenance, but the collector-series context matters more than the attribution.