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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Crivitz (City of Crivitz) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink note with a salmon underprint of a townscape. At centre, a large scalloped cartouche with hatched shading encloses a Low German verse in Gothic blackletter script; above the cartouche, the denomination numeral '50' is set against a circular blue vignette, with the word 'PFENNIG' arching over it in bold Gothic lettering. At lower left, the validity text is printed in two columns, and at lower right the issuing authority appears above two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG REUTERGELD DER STADT CRIVITZ |
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Crivitz is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued emergency paper currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed World War One. The Stadt Crivitz 50 Pfennig falls squarely into this wave of locally printed scrip, produced because the Imperial and later Weimar monetary authorities simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce functional.
These municipal issues were rarely printed by major security printers — local job shops handled most of them, which accounts for the wide variation in print quality across Mecklenburg Notgeld of this period.