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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wesenberg (City of Wesenberg), Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-orange underprint with a large semicircular vignette occupying the centre and lower portion of the note, rendered in brown letterpress, showing a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough team of four horses across an open field, with a farmstead visible on the distant horizon. The denomination legend FÜNFZIG PFENNIG arches in bold Gothic letters along the upper edge of the semicircle, while validity and issuing authority inscriptions in Fraktur script appear above. A six-line verse in Low German dialect (Plattdeutsch) is set in two columns along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-orange ground with a full-width intaglio-style vignette in brown depicting the ruined medieval tower and associated masonry remains of Wesenberg castle set within a naturalistic landscape of scrubland and bare trees. The numeral 50 in large outline figures occupies the upper left, with PFENNIG beneath it. The legend REUTERGELD appears centrally below the vignette, and the issuer name STADT WESENBERG is set in large bold letters across the lower margin. |
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Wesenberg is a small lakeland town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921–1923, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the void left by the collapse of coin circulation during hyperinflation. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying small change, forcing local authorities, companies, and even clubs to print their own.
Stadt Wesenberg issues from this period are minor series, printed in limited quantities for purely local use and rarely found outside the region today. Most circulated hard and briefly before being redeemed or simply discarded when the Rentenmark stabilization ended the crisis in late 1923.