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50 Pfennig Districts Series - Issue 17: Lichtenberg
| Issuer | Magistrat der Reichshauptstadt Berlin |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed line-engraved rural townscape of Lichtenberg as it appeared around 1790, with a church steeple rising above half-timbered houses, figures, and a cart in the foreground. Flanking vertical panels in blue carry geometric interlace borders; the left panel bears the district number '17' and the name 'Lichtenberg' in Fraktur script, while the right panel repeats the district name and date inscription in a calligraphic hand. |
| Reverse lettering | BEZIRK 17 Lichtenberg Lichtenberg um 1790 (Translation: District 17 Lichtenberg Lichtenberg around 1790) |
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Lichtenberg was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920 under the Greater Berlin Act, which amalgamated eight cities, 59 rural communities, and 27 estate districts into a single administrative unit. This notgeld series — issued by the Magistrat of the newly unified city — was a direct response to the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar years, when hoarding of metal coinage had emptied everyday transactions of any functional currency below the Mark level.
The district-specific series gave each of Berlin's newly absorbed boroughs its own identity within a unified civic issue — a quiet piece of administrative politics rendered in paper.