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99 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neustadt in Mecklenburg (City of Neustadt in Mecklenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a green and red ruled border framing the design. The denomination '99 PFG' appears in white numerals within green panels at left and right. At centre, a circular vignette contains a bearded male portrait in medallion style, overlaid with a circular town stamp reading 'STADT NEUSTADT/MECKL.' Flanking the central medallion are two architectural vignettes: the Rathaus (town hall) at left and the Schloss (castle) at right, both rendered in fine colour-lithographic style. A Low German verse in Gothic lettering occupies the field to either side of the medallion, with the issue date '24. NOV. 1921' and place name 'NEUSTADT i/M' inscribed below. The lower panel carries the validity notice and manuscript signatures of municipal councillors and the Stadtvorstand, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm yellow, red, and green tones with a decorative dot-rule border. A central vignette presents a detailed colour-lithographic view of the local Technikum building, a red-brick two-storey neoclassical structure set among trees within an iron fence. Text panels in Low German dialect flank the vignette on left and right. The denomination '99' and the town name 'NEUSTADTi.M.' are set in bold letterpress in the upper yellow band, and a caption panel beneath the building reads 'UNS·TECHNIKUM·' with a Low German motto. |
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The 99 Pfennig denomination is one of the more eccentric choices in the Weimar-era Notgeld series — issued just below the psychologically significant 1 Mark threshold, likely to exploit the coin shortage without directly substituting for the Mark denomination, which carried different redemption obligations under the regulations governing municipal emergency currency at the time.
Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was a well-regarded regional printer with a long history of official work in Mecklenburg, and their output for local Notgeld commissions was generally of higher technical finish than the cruder wartime issues.
The designer credit "Heinberg" has not been traced to a major commercial artist of the period.