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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Gollnow (City of Gollnow, Pomerania) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1921 |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour note with ornate Art Nouveau floral borders in blue, green, and yellow flanking a central framed vignette. The vignette, signed by the artist, shows a black silhouette scene of a kneeling man confronted by a wolf, illustrating a folk-tale narrative. Gothic script legends appear in banner panels above and below the central image, with denomination numerals '50 Pfa.' in the side borders. |
| Reverse lettering | Doch unterwegs erwachte der Schläfer ohne Waffen. In seiner Angst er dachte: "Jetzt gilt's! Jetzt mußt du's khaffen!" |
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Gollnow — now Goleniów in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, issued its own emergency currency (Notgeld) to plug the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the early Weimar Republic. The Reichsbank simply could not produce low-denomination coin fast enough as inflation began eroding metal's intrinsic value.
The printer, Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, Saxony, was a regional municipal print house that handled Notgeld commissions from towns well outside its immediate area — a common arrangement, since many local printers lacked the equipment for currency-grade work. Gollnow itself had a population of only a few thousand, which kept original issue quantities modest.