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50 Pfennige
| Issuer | Malchin, City of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is dominated by the municipal arms of Malchin on a yellow ground, comprising two red crenellated towers flanking a red Iron Cross, with a crowned bull's head below; the denomination '50 Pf' appears in large white Gothic lettering at the lower left. The right half, printed on a lighter ground, carries the issuing authority text in ornate blackletter script alongside a large yellow '50' underprint, with two manuscript signatures below the designations 'Stadtverordnetenvorsteher' and 'Der Rat'. A decorative yellow foliate border frames the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Malchin Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31 Dezember 1922. Stadtverordnetenvorsteher - Der Rat 50 Pf |
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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.