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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Woldegk |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-gold Notgeld note with an octagonal inner frame enclosing a central oval vignette of a panoramic townscape of Woldegk, with a church steeple and rural outbuildings visible among trees. The denomination "50 PF." appears in large bold numerals to the left and right of the vignette. Above the vignette, four lines of Low German verse are printed in italic script, and below, the validity inscription and issuing authority "Rat der Stadt Woldegk" are printed with a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | Pink-toned reverse with an all-over underprint of repeating "50 Pf" denomination units arranged in a grid pattern. To the upper right, a rectangular vignette presents a line-drawn street scene with the Woldegk church tower and flanking townhouses. To the left, the denomination "50" in large yellow numerals surmounts the bold inscriptions "PFENNIG", "REUTERGELD" and "DER STADT" in stacked letterpress, with "WOLDEGK" in very large bold capitals across the lower margin. |
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Woldegk is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like thousands of German municipalities it resorted to locally issued Notgeld during the chronic small-change shortage that plagued civilian commerce between 1916 and 1922. The Rat der Stadt — the town council — had no banking infrastructure behind these notes; they were essentially scrip, printed in limited runs and accepted only within the issuing community.
Mecklenburg Notgeld from minor towns survives unevenly. Some series were printed speculatively for collector sale late in the Notgeld period, inflating surviving quantities; others were genuinely utilitarian and are now scarce simply because they were spent, redeemed, and pulped.