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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Strelitz i.M. |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG PFENNIG Dörch Strigeln ward dat Fahlen zirlich, Dörch Frigen ward de Minsch manirlich. Gültig im Geldverkehr innerhalb des Stadtgebietes bis zum 31. Mai 1922. Rat der Stadt Strelitz i.M. |
| Reverse description | Salmon-pink ground with a stippled brown underprint and ruled outer border. Large salmon-coloured numerals '50' appear at left and right, each accompanied by the abbreviation 'Pf.' in brown. A central rectangular vignette presents a line-engraved townscape of Strelitz i.M., with the prominent tower of the Marktkirche and the Rathaus visible. The horizontal legend 'REUTERGELD DER STADT' runs across the lower portion of the flanking panels, with 'Strelitz i.M.' rendered in large display lettering below. |
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Strelitz i.M. — the older of the two towns that were merged to form Neustrelitz in 1933 — issued this Notgeld note during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922, when municipal and commercial entities across Germany were forced to produce their own small-denomination emergency currency to compensate for a catastrophic shortage of official coinage and low-value Reichsbank notes. The Rat der Stadt, the town council, held the legal authority to authorize such issues under the broadly permissive emergency currency provisions of the period.
Strelitz had been the former residential capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a status that dissolved with the 1918 abdication.