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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Der Rat der Stadt Stavenhagen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark black-brown ink over a dense wave-pattern guilloche underprint covering the entire field, the reverse carries a full-length woodcut vignette of Fritz Reuter, the Low German poet associated with Stavenhagen, positioned to the right alongside an ornate oval portrait medallion in orange-brown showing his bearded profile in three-quarter view with a decorative crown at the top. To the left, the denomination numeral 50 Pfg appears in large overprinted purple figures. The issuing city name STAVENHAGEN is set in bold block capitals along the lower margin, with DER STADT above and REUTERGELD inscribed across the upper portion. |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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Stavenhagen is a small Mecklenburg town best known as the birthplace of Fritz Reuter, the Low German dialect writer. That association was not lost on the municipality — Reuter imagery featured heavily in the town's Notgeld output, effectively turning its emergency currency into a local marketing exercise during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar years.
The watermarked paper is notable for a piece of this denomination and origin; most German municipal Notgeld of 1921 was printed on plain stock with no security provision whatsoever. Whether this reflects a deliberate anti-counterfeiting decision or simply the paper stock available to the printer is not documented.