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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Boizenburg (City of Boizenburg) |
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| Size | 110 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange and grey-green notgeld printed in letterpress. A triangular vignette at centre contains a domed civic building rendered in two-colour line art against a dark green ground, flanked by stylised zigzag rays. The denomination '50 Pfg' appears in large bold numerals at lower left, with the issuing authority 'Der Rat der Stadt Boizenburg i/M' across the bottom margin accompanied by a manuscript signature. A validity clause is inscribed to the right of the vignette, and a Low German motto in cursive script arches across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Reutergeld der Stadt 50 Pfennig Boizenburg Richard Zschened |
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Boizenburg's 50 Pfennig Notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany between 1914 and the early 1920s, when coin shortages — caused first by wartime metal requisitioning and later by rampant inflation — forced towns of every size to print their own substitute money. Boizenburg, a small river town on the Elbe in Mecklenburg, was typical of hundreds of municipalities that commissioned local or regional designers to produce notes with some civic distinction.
Richard Zschened is not a widely documented figure in Notgeld design literature, which suggests a regional or local commission rather than one of the established specialty printers who dominated the later "collector Notgeld" trade after 1921.