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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Doberan (City of Bad Doberan) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Expressionist composition in black and yellow, with the large denomination numeral '50' rendered in bold yellow at lower left. The central vignette shows a haloed elderly bearded figure seated with an open book, flanked by two standing figures in period dress, all executed in a vigorous woodcut-like style. Stars punctuate the upper field, and a curved banner carries a Low German verse inscription. The artist's signature 'Boom Tschirch' appears at lower right, and a label at upper left reads 'Alter Grabspruch'. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD STADT DOBERAN ALTER GRABSPRUCH HIER RAUHT AHLKE AHLKE POTT / AS ICK DY WULL — BEWOHR MY LEVE HERRE GOTT / AHLKE AHLKE LEVE AHLKE POTT / BEWOHREN / WENN DU WIRST UND ICK DE LEVE HERRE GOTT! BOOM TSCHIRCH |
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Bad Doberan's 50 Pfennig Notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency issued across Germany between 1918 and 1922, when chronic coin shortages left local authorities scrambling for small-denomination substitutes. Stadt Doberan, a small spa town in Mecklenburg, was among hundreds of municipalities that commissioned locally themed issues — partly functional, partly a deliberate revenue play, since collectors across Germany were actively buying and hoarding sets, meaning a significant portion never circulated at all.
The designer credit "Boom Tschirch" is an unusual double-barrelled attribution, possibly a local artist working in the regional graphic tradition common to Mecklenburg Notgeld.