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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Garstedt (Municipality of Garstedt in Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan-ground note with a teal border printed by letterpress. At centre, a stylised vignette of a sailing vessel with a large blue sail bearing the numeral '50' at sea, rendered in black and teal. A red serial number appears to the right of the vignette. The upper legend is set in bold black Gothic type, and the lower text panel contains the validity clause referencing the Pinneberger Tageblatt and Lockstedter Anzeiger, flanked by two manuscript signatures above the legend 'COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG'. The printer's imprint 'KONRAD HANF HAMBURG 8' appears below the border. |
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| Reverse description | Tan-ground note with a teal border. The central vignette, executed in a bold woodcut or linocut style, presents a bearded fisherman in oilskins standing amid fishing nets with a harbour scene of sailing vessels behind him. Denomination cartouches bearing '50 ℳ' in white on black ground flank the vignette at left and right. The upper legend repeats the issuer name in bold Gothic lettering, while below the vignette a two-line inscription identifies the literary reference to the Low German writer Gorch Fock. |
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Garstedt, a small community in Holstein north of Hamburg, issued this note as part of the nationwide Kleingeldersatz wave that followed the postwar coin shortage. Municipal Notgeld at this denomination was produced by the thousands across Germany between 1920 and 1922, but many smaller issuers — Garstedt among them — kept print runs modest, often ordered in batches sized to actual local need rather than the collector market that was already forming by 1921.
Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm. That matters: the notes lack the security features of Reichsbank-contracted work and were never intended for anything beyond short-term local use.