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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Malchin (City of Malchin) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in deep blue and ochre, with large decorative '50' vignettes in green interlace style positioned at both lateral margins. A central circular vignette presents a polychrome view of the Kaleschtor (Kalen Gate), a Gothic brick gatehouse of Malchin, set against a landscape background, with the denomination 'Pfennige' inscribed in large Gothic letterpress at the lower left and right. A Low German dialect couplet in letterpress occupies ochre banner panels at the top and bottom of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Hier geiht't stadtin dörch't Kal'sche Dur Gah' wedder ruter ok so stuhr. 50 Pfennige |
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Malchin is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921–1923, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — when the Reichsbank failed to keep coins in circulation ahead of the hyperinflation spiral. These municipal issues were printed by whatever commercial firm was locally convenient or cheaply available; Paul Lehsten in Charlottenburg was one of dozens of small Berlin-area printers who picked up this work.
The Stadt Malchin series is not documented as having a known error variety or unusual overprint. Lehsten-printed Kleingeldscheine from this period occasionally show inconsistent ink coverage due to short press runs on thin stock.