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50 Pfennig Districts Series - Issue 15: Treptow
| Issuer | Magistrat der Reichshauptstadt Berlin |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | BEZIRK 15 Treptow Gasthaus in Treptow um 1820 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Berlin's district Notgeld program of 1921 was an administrative response to the chronic small-change shortage that had plagued Germany since the war — Reichsbank coins were being hoarded and melted faster than they could be minted. The Magistrat issued these 50 Pfennig notes at the district level rather than centrally, meaning each of the city's Bezirke produced its own series, with Treptow as Issue 15 in that sequence.
The watermarked paper was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure, unusually conscientious for emergency municipal scrip of this period. Most comparable Notgeld from smaller towns dispensed with security paper entirely.