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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Marienburg (West Prussia) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries the Teutonic Order cross shield at left and a vignette of the Marienburg castle gatehouse with the Teutonic cross sword at right, flanking the denomination legend in bold Gothic blackletter script. Below, a rectangular panel with an orange guilloche underprint bears the issuing authority inscription and two manuscript facsimile signatures over the notation of the issuing magistrate. A validity clause in Gothic script runs along the lower margin within a decorative border. |
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| Protection description | Tropfen (droplet pattern watermark) |
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Marienburg's Stadtgeld issues were products of the post-WWI Notgeld wave that flooded Germany between 1918 and 1923, when municipal authorities printed emergency fractional currency to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmünzen. The Stadt Marienburg series is catalogued under the Grabowski reference system, and the 870.3 designation places this among the later, more deliberately produced collector-targeted issues — by 1921 many municipalities knew full well that philatelists and notgeld collectors were driving demand as much as genuine commerce.
The watermarked paper distinguishes this from the cheaper Notgeld produced on plain stock, suggesting a more deliberate print run rather than a hasty wartime stopgap.