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50 Pfennig Districts Series - Issue 6: Kreuzberg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Berlin (Municipality of Berlin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Notgeld note presents the denomination '50 Pfennig' within a typographically composed layout referencing the Berlin district of Kreuzberg, with the issuing authority identified as part of the Berlin Districts Series. Decorative borders and period letterpress ornamentation frame the central text, characteristic of 1921 municipal emergency currency issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries supplementary text and decorative elements consistent with the Berlin Districts Series Notgeld issue, with validity conditions and anti-counterfeiting notices typical of municipal 50 Pfennig emergency currency of the early Weimar period. |
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Berlin's 1921 Notgeld issues were a direct response to the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Weimar Germany in the immediate post-war years — federal coinage simply could not be produced fast enough to meet demand, so municipalities across Germany printed their own emergency fractions. The Districts Series assigned each borough its own design, making Kreuzberg one of roughly twenty administratively distinct Berlin localities represented across the run.
The "V1" suffix in the Pick reference denotes a recognized variety within the 92.1 grouping — likely a paper stock or overprint distinction rather than a reissue, though documentation on individual variety separations within this series remains inconsistent across major references.