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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Satrup (Municipality of Satrup) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | A. Ritscher, Graasten, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Ugyldig som Betalingsmiddel! Gutschein über FÜNFZIG PFENNIG Gemeinde Satrup PLEBISCIT SLESVIG No Gemeindevorsteher Verliert 4 Wochen nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit Rolf Krake ved Sollrupskov 1864 |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Gemeinde Satrup 50 Hjulmand Jørgensen 1848-49 1862 A. Ritscher, Graasten. |
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Satrup sits in Schleswig, the disputed territory whose political fate was being decided almost in real time as this note was printed. The February 1920 plebiscite assigned the northern zone to Denmark; Satrup fell in the southern zone, which voted to remain German. This notgeld was issued into that unresolved atmosphere, when municipal authorities across Schleswig were scrambling to cover small-change shortages that the wartime and postwar German monetary system had created.
The printer, A. Ritscher, was based in Graasten — a town that had just voted itself into Denmark. A German municipality commissioning emergency currency from a press that now sat across a freshly redrawn border is a quietly strange administrative detail that most catalog entries overlook.