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50 Pfennig Districts Series - Issue 19: Pankow
| Issuer | Magistrat der Reichshauptstadt Berlin |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The rampant heraldic bear of Berlin, rendered in a bold woodcut-style vignette, occupies the left panel against a fine guilloche underprint of repeating octagonal rosettes and numeral 50 elements in brown tones. The central field carries the denomination and issuing authority in heavy Gothic blackletter script, with a circular dry-stamp seal visible at the right margin. The serial number appears in blue letterpress at lower left below the bear vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | BEZIRK 19 Pankow Gehöft in Pankow um 1770 (Translation: District 19 Pankow Farmstead in Pankow around 1770) |
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Berlin's 1921 Kleingeldersatz — emergency small-change notes issued district by district — arose from a coin shortage so severe that trams, tobacconists, and bakeries were refusing to make change. The Magistrat authorized each of the city's districts to issue its own 50 Pfennig notes, with Pankow forming one of twenty sequential releases in the series. Watermarked paper was a deliberate hedge against the casual counterfeiting that had plagued earlier Notgeld issues elsewhere in Germany.
Pankow at the time was still administratively distinct from central Berlin, having been incorporated into Greater Berlin only the previous year under the Greater Berlin Act of 1920.