50 Pfennig Districts Series - Issue 7: Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg was still an independent city when much of the imagery for this series was conceived — it had only been absorbed into Greater Berlin in October 1920, less than a year before this note's issue. The merger consolidated eight cities, 59 rural communities, and 27 estate districts into a single administrative unit, creating one of the largest cities in the world almost overnight and immediately generating urgent demand for small-denomination emergency currency that the Reichsbank could not supply fast enough.

At over twelve million printed, this was not a scarce issue. Survivors in undamaged condition are nonetheless harder to find than the print run suggests — Notgeld of this denomination circulated hard before inflation rendered it obsolete within two years.