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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Stellingen-Langenfelde |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in terracotta-red and black on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by a central vignette of a war memorial stone tablet surmounted by a steel helmet, flanked by symmetrical sprays of oak and laurel branches. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in bold blackletter type within black-bordered cartouches at the upper left and right. Two lateral text panels carry validity and redemption notices, and the issuing municipality name 'Stellingen-Langenfelde' is inscribed in large blackletter script along the lower margin. The printer's imprint 'C. Schönfeldt, Stellingen' appears below the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Ook-Geld Dree dusend Meter Eer de schaffen wi hier her uns tweehunnert to Ehr. In fremde Eer sünd se bleben, In uns Harten söllt se leben. |
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Stellingen-Langenfelde was a small industrial municipality just west of Hamburg — the kind of place whose name disappeared from maps when it was absorbed into Hamburg proper in 1927. Its 50 Pfennig notgeld exists because the Reichsbank could not supply enough small-denomination coinage during the post-WWI inflationary spiral, forcing thousands of German towns to print their own emergency scrip. C. Schönfeldt was a local printer, not a specialist currency house, which is common for notgeld of this period and tier.
The municipality's brief independent existence means the issuing authority itself ceased to exist within five years of this note's printing.