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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Gollnow (City of Gollnow) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour letterpress reverse with ornamental side borders in blue, green, and yellow, incorporating foliate scroll motifs and repeated '50 Pfa.' denomination panels. A central rectangular vignette in dark silhouette style presents a wolf attacking a hussar soldier on the ground, executed in the Scherenschnitt (paper-cut silhouette) tradition; the artist's signature 'Elisabeth Forst 21' is inscribed within the vignette at upper right. A rhyming couplet in Gothic script appears above and below the central scene, and the scene is numbered '3' at its lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Da kam ein Wolf gelaufen, Der packte den Husaren 50 Pfa. Und schleppte ihn mit Schnaufen Zu seiner Brüder Scharen. |
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Gollnow — now Goleniów in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town when it issued this note in 1921, part of the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany as small denominations vanished from circulation. The printer, Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce of Glauchau in Saxony, was a civic press serving numerous regional Notgeld commissions during this period; notes traveled considerable distances between issuing authority and print shop as a matter of routine.
The designer credit to Elisabeth Forst is the detail worth noting. Named female designers on Notgeld issues are uncommon enough to be remarked upon, and Forst's attribution here is explicit rather than inferred.