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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Neustadt am Rübenberge |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black-ground note with red and grey multicolour letterpress printing. The upper banner carries the issuer legend in Gothic script; a central diamond-shaped vignette presents a panoramic view of Schloß Neustadt dated A.D. 1654, flanked by circular denomination cartouches reading "50" in red. The town coat of arms — a gated tower with lion — appears at foot centre, with validity and date text in lower left and magistrate signatures at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld · Stadt · Neustadt a. Rbge Schloß · A. D. 1654 Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. Februar 1922. Neustadt a. Rbge · 1. Mai 1921. Der Magistrat: |
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Neustadt am Rübenberge is a small town in the Hannover region, and this 50 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years — coin metal was being hoarded and melted, leaving municipalities scrambling to fill the gap with locally printed Notgeld. The Magistrat issued these notes on its own authority, as thousands of German towns did between 1919 and 1922, with no central approval required beyond the implicit tolerance of a monetary system in collapse.
Notgeld from smaller Hannover-region towns tends to survive in relatively high numbers, having been collected almost immediately upon issue — a habit that inadvertently preserved what was meant to be temporary emergency scrip.