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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Neustrelitz (Landeshauptstadt Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Three-panel layout in black, grey, and pink on paper. The central vignette presents a silhouette of a medieval tower against a circular grey underprint, framed by ornate scrollwork. Denomination numerals '50' in diamond cartouches flank the design left and right, with the issue authority and date inscribed in Gothic blackletter script above and below the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Landeshauptstadt Neustrelitz Ausgegeben am 1. Oktober 1921 Der Rat der Landeshauptstadt: Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt drei Monate nach öffentlichem Aufruf. 50 Pf. |
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Neustrelitz was the capital of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, one of Germany's smallest constituent republics, which was absorbed into Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1934. This note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1922, when coin shortages and rampant inflation forced hundreds of German towns to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Stadt Neustrelitz issues from 1921 are among the later municipal pieces — by this point, many local authorities had shifted from purely functional scrip to collector-targeted designs, a practice that drew considerable criticism from the Reichsbank.