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50 Pfennig Ueckermünde
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Ueckermünde |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre guilloche underprint on a cream ground, framed by a dark outer border with a geometric hatched pattern. The central vignette presents the heraldic coat of arms of Ueckermünde — a griffin rampant on a quartered shield, surmounted by a crested helm and flanked by two lion supporters, all rendered in black and gold — set between two large bold denomination numerals '50 Pf' enclosed in wreath cartouches, one of oak leaves to the left and one of rope to the right. The issue date 'Ueckermünde, den 1. September 1921', the authority line 'Der Magistrat', a manuscript signature, and a serial number appear along the lower portion, with the printer's imprint 'OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Vör hunnerten von Joahren wier Bogislav hier Gast, Uns' Schloß, worin he woahnte, dat steht noch stolz u. fast. Nu is't uns Koathus worden un giwt uns frischen Mot; Wie fählen uns geborgen troh Ungemach un Not. Schloß Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig |
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Ueckermünde's 1921 Notgeld issue is one of hundreds of municipal emergency notes produced across Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep fractional coinage in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. What distinguishes the Parcus-printed pieces is print quality — Gebrüder Parcus of Munich were among the more technically capable Notgeld printers, and small-town commissions like this one benefited from that infrastructure even when the issuing municipality itself had little design budget to speak of.
The 1921 date places this firmly in the transitional phase before hyperinflation made Pfennig-denomination Notgeld effectively worthless to issue.