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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Parchim (City of Parchim) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green and black bicolour note with a geometric guilloche underprint of floral rosettes and cross-hatching. A green vignette of a civic crown with flame motif occupies the centre, flanked by four corner value panels reading "50 Pfg." |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of cream-coloured paper with faint show-through of the obverse design visible through the thin stock. |
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Parchim's 50 Pfennig notgeld was printed locally by H. Freise — a small-town commercial printer pressed into monetary service, as happened across Germany when coin shortages during and after the First World War forced thousands of municipalities to issue their own emergency currency. The Reichsbank had neither the capacity nor the inclination to supply small denominations to every Mecklenburg market town.
Local printing on local paper means these notes are vulnerable to edge tanning and foxing at a higher rate than centrally produced issues.