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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neukloster, Municipality of |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 Ick segg man, wat de Wohrheit is, Un gaht mi mit dat Leigen weg! Un wenn ick einmal segg: ick segg! Denn segg ick aewerst ganz gewiß. Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Gemeinde bis zum 31. Mai 1922. Der Rat von Neukloster. |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in dark brown over an orange-tan underprint on cream paper, presents a bold woodcut-style vignette of the Neukloster monastery church set within an arched frame, the steepled Gothic edifice rendered in vigorous hatched lines against a stylised sky with radiating lines at the apex of the arch. The denomination '50 PFENNIG 50' again appears in large stylised numerals along the upper arch. At the lower margin, two lines of bold block lettering read 'REUTERGELD' and 'NEUKLOSTER', identifying this note as a Notgeld issue of the town. |
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Neukloster is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the Kleingeldnot of 1917–1921, it issued its own emergency fractional notes when coin shortages made small change nearly impossible to obtain. These Notgeld issues were authorized locally, printed in short runs, and intended for purely domestic circulation within the issuing community — a grocer or innkeeper in Neukloster had no guarantee a stranger from the next town would accept them.
The DeNG reference 0951.1-3/3 indicates this is the third of three known types in the Neukloster series, distinguishing it from the other two variants by some combination of color, text, or serial format.