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50 Pfennige
| Issuer | Malchin, City of |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Malchin Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31 Dezember 1922. Stadtverordnetenvorsteher - Der Rat 50 Pf |
| Reverse description | A central circular vignette presents a colour lithograph of the Malchin water tower (labelled 'Wasserturm') set among trees beside a road, enclosed by a dark decorative surround with large olive-gold numeral '50' at left and right, flanked by the word 'Pfennige' in pink Gothic lettering on both sides. A gold-ground banner at the top and a matching banner at the bottom each carry one line of a Low German rhyming verse in blackletter script. |
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Malchin is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities, it turned to locally arranged notgeld printing during the severe coin shortages of the First World War. Paul Lehsten operated out of Charlottenburg — then still an independent city west of Berlin, not yet absorbed into Greater Berlin until 1920 — and handled a considerable volume of municipal emergency issue work during this period.
The GRM reference places this among the catalogued Mecklenburg series, which varied considerably in print quality and surviving quantities depending on how long individual issues remained in local circulation before redemption.