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50 Pfennige
| Issuer | Malchin, City of |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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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 | Central vignette, set within a circular frame, presents a colour lithograph of the Wargentiner Tor, a Gothic brick city gate of Malchin, with a banner inscribed 'Wargentiner Tor' above the arch; flanking the vignette on a dark decorative ground are large interlaced numerals '50' in green with gold highlights, and the word 'Pfennige' in pink Gothic script at lower left and right. A top banner in amber carries a Low German verse couplet in black Gothic lettering, with a matching bottom banner completing the rhyme. |
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Malchin is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it turned to emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward. Local authorities were legally permitted to issue small-denomination scrip to keep commerce moving when metal coinage disappeared into hoarding and wartime metal collection drives. The printer here, Paul Lehsten of Charlottenburg, was one of several Berlin-area firms that built a reliable trade supplying these municipal commissions.
Charlottenburg was at the time still an independent city adjoining Berlin, not yet absorbed into Greater Berlin until 1920.