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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Feldberg (Mecklenburg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 112 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink Notgeld note printed in dark brown, with the left half occupied by a detailed pen-and-ink style vignette of tall birch trees rising from a grassy hillside, with a distant landscape visible at lower right; the artist's signature appears at lower left of the vignette. The right half carries a three-stanza romantic wandering poem in Gothic script, numbered '1' below the text. The lower margin presents the denomination '50 PF.' in large bold numerals at each corner flanking a central text panel, above the issuing authority's name and a manuscript Bürgermeister signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 REUTERGELD DER STADT FELDBERG i. M. |
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Feldberg's 1922 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — not the wartime scarcity issues of 1914–18, but the inflationary stopgap series produced as Reichsmark coinage vanished from circulation hoarding and melting. The Rat der Stadt Feldberg, a small Mecklenburg town council with no particular banking infrastructure, was simply authorized to print what the Reichsbank could not supply in small denominations fast enough.
Mecklenburg notgeld from this period is less studied than the elaborate "collector" series from larger towns, which were frankly printed as souvenirs. Feldberg's issue shows no such ambition.