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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Burg in Dithmarschen (Municipality of Burg in Dithmarschen) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Size | 95 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is occupied by a multicolour letterpress vignette of a traditional Low German thatched farmhouse ('Oles Burnhus in Burg'), set among trees, with a caption panel in blue at the lower centre. The denomination numeral '50' appears in blue within a white box at the upper left, while a gold-ground panel at the upper right carries the Low German value inscription 'Föftig Penn' in bold blackletter script. The right column presents the issuing authority text, date, and two manuscript signatures above the printed issuer line 'De Kaspels-Gemeen.', all enclosed within a ruled border with ornamental scrollwork at the base. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld ut dat Kaspel Burg S/S Dun Moehlenbarg kannst Du kieken na Süd un Westen to, bet an de Elv ehr Dieken, na Wilster, Itzehoe. |
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Burg in Dithmarschen is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1916, it was forced into issuing its own fractional emergency currency after hoarding stripped silver and copper coins from circulation entirely. The Imperial government had made no adequate provision for small-change shortages in the second year of war, so the burden fell to towns, cities, and even individual businesses to print their own Notgeld.
The 1916 municipal issues are among the earliest and plainest of the Notgeld period — purely functional, before the decorative collector-oriented issues flooded the market from 1918 onward.