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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Goldberg in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on a pale underprint, the obverse is divided into three vertical panels by a decorative Gothic arch motif, at the centre of which sits a letterpress vignette of the Goldberg town hall viewed through the arch, flanked by wheat-ear ornaments in the upper corners. The denomination '50' appears in large gothic script in both the left and right panels, with the issuing authority text arranged around the borders. Two circular official stamps are visible at the lower centre, and a handwritten serial number appears at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt 50 Einlösungsfrist wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Goldberg i. Merklbg. Goldberg, d. 20. Nov. 19. Der Rat: Nr. 0773 |
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Goldberg is a small Mecklenburg market town — in 1919 it had fewer than 3,000 inhabitants — and this note is a product of the Kleingeldschein emergency, when the postwar coin shortage forced even minor municipalities to print their own fractional currency. The issuing authority here is the town itself, not a savings bank or cooperative, which was common enough but meant the notes carried only the credit of a local administration with no significant reserves behind them.
Paul Biedermann's print shop was a local trade printer, not a specialist security printer. Counterfeiting such notes was largely pointless given their tiny circulation radius.