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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Teterow |
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| Printer | Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin i. M., Germany |
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| Obverse description | A notgeld issue of the City of Teterow, printed in letterpress with the denomination '50 Pfennig' rendered in bold typeface against a plain ground. The face carries the issuing authority's designation and relevant municipal text, framed by simple typographic border elements characteristic of wartime emergency currency production. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries standard redemption or validity text typical of German municipal notgeld, with the denomination restated and conditions of acceptance set out in period typeface within a plain ruled border. |
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Teterow is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the outbreak of war in 1914. The Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was the court printer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and handled a significant volume of regional Notgeld commissions, which accounts for the consistent production quality across notes from this corner of northern Germany.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was typically authorized for local circulation only, redeemable at the issuing town hall — in practice, many pieces were never presented for redemption at all, absorbed into the collecting market that grew rapidly around the series by 1921.