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75 Pfennig

Issuer Stadt Neustadt in Mecklenburg (City of Neustadt in Mecklenburg)
Year 1921
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Obverse description Multicolour Notgeld note with a red and yellow ornamental border framing the entire composition. The denomination '75 PFG' appears in red panels at upper left and right, with the town name 'NEUSTADT/MECKL.' in bold lettering across the top. The central vignette is a circular medallion bearing the town seal of Neustadt in Mecklenburg, showing a bearded figure of Saint Peter with a key, surrounded by the legend 'STADT NEUSTADT i. MECKL.'; flanking the medallion are Low German verse texts split across both sides. Two lateral vignettes in colour depict fishing scenes on the Lewitz meadows at left and the Wiesen at right, with a date of '24. NOV. 1921' below the central medallion and a validity notice with manuscript signatures at the foot.
Obverse lettering 75 PFG
NEUSTADT/MECKL.
ENTWURF:
HEINBERG
LEWITZ-
WIESEN-
O·PETRUS·STAH·UNS·BI;DAT·W·IN·DE·SCHÖ·
NE·LEWS·DAT·AN·GELN·KRIE·GEN·FRI!
NEUSTADT i/M.
24. NOV. 1921
DIESES·NOTGELD·VERLIERT·SEINE·GÜLTIGKEIT·2·MONATE·NACH·ERFOLGTER·AUFKÜNDIGUNG·IM·NEUSTÄDTER·ANZEIGER
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STADTV.·VORST.:
BÄRENSPRUNGSCHE HOFBUCHDRUCKEREI SCHWERIN I.M.
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Comments

Neustadt in Mecklenburg was a small town issuing Notgeld during the inflationary crisis years, and this 75 Pfennig note is a product of the Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin — a court printing house with roots in the nineteenth century that handled official Mecklenburg state printing before pivoting to the flood of municipal emergency currency orders after 1918. The designer credit to "Heinberg" is almost certainly a local commercial artist; the name appears on several Mecklenburg-area Notgeld issues from the same period but remains otherwise unattributed in the principal reference literature.

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