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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Gollnow (City of Gollnow, Prussian province of Pomerania) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black, yellow, and green on cream paper, the obverse carries the issuer name "Stadt Gollnow" in bold Gothic blackletter at the top, flanked by symmetrically placed octagonal denomination cartouches reading "50 Pf" in yellow and black, each accompanied by stylised green conifer branches. The central vignette presents a black silhouette of a ploughman with a horse-drawn plough set against a radiating yellow sunburst underprint, evoking an agrarian theme. The date "Gollnow, den 3. Aug. 1921" and serial number appear at lower centre, with two manuscript signatures above the legend "der Magistrat:" and the printer's imprint at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Vom Kampfe vorher müde Fing er an einzuschlafen. 50 Pfa. Ein Vöglein sang im Liede Von Lieb' und Treu' dem Braven. |
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Gollnow — now Goleniów in northwestern Poland — was one of hundreds of small Prussian municipalities that commissioned emergency paper currency during the postwar inflation spiral. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a municipal printer, not a specialist banknote house, which accounts for the relatively modest production quality typical of Pomeranian Kleingeldscheine from this period.
The issuing authority, Stadt Gollnow, had no banking infrastructure of its own — these notes functioned as fractional change substitutes when coin metal was being hoarded or had simply disappeared from circulation entirely.