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50 Pfennig Districts Series - Issue 18: Weißensee
| Issuer | Magistrat der Reichshauptstadt Berlin |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a finely engraved panoramic street scene of Weißensee circa 1800, rendered in a woodcut-style line print: a rural village road with half-timbered farmhouses, a horse-drawn cart, and groups of figures in period dress flanking a dirt track. The left panel, framed in blue geometric ornament, bears the district number '18' and the name 'Weißensee' in Gothic lettering. The right panel, similarly bordered, carries the inscription 'Weißensee um 1800' in ornate calligraphic script. |
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| Protection description | Octagonal flowers |
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Berlin's 1921 district notgeld series was a coordinated municipal response to the severe small-change shortage gripping Germany during the early inflation period. Rather than issuing a single generic scrip, the Magistrat produced individual notes attributed to each of Berlin's administrative districts — Weißensee being one of twenty such issues, all sharing the same DeNG 1/2#92.1 plate series but distinguished by district designation.
The watermark security feature is notable for notgeld of this denomination and period; most emergency municipal issues at this level dispensed with it entirely. Its presence here reflects the Magistrat's attempt to produce something closer to a formal currency instrument than the crude privately-issued scrip flooding German commerce at the time.