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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Broacker (Municipality of Broacker) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the obverse carries the municipal coat of arms of Broacker in full colour: a shield divided by red brickwork walls enclosing a river scene with two fish, a wooden bridge, a large tree, and sheaves of grain above. To the right, the denomination is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script across three lines, followed by the issuer name 'Gemeinde Broacker.' A cursive manuscript signature above the title 'Gemeindevorsteher' (municipal mayor) appears in the lower right. A serial number in Gothic numerals is printed in the lower left corner. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is composed of two interlocking oval vignettes encircled by a continuous wreath of green laurel leaves, with the numeral '50' printed in each of the four corners. The left vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of a Gothic church with twin spires beneath a clouded sky. The right vignette shows a sculptural group of an armoured knight on a rearing horse. A bold red overprint of '50 Pf.' is superimposed across the centre of the design, and the year '1918' appears below in black. |
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Broacker — or Broager in Danish — sits on a peninsula in the Schleswig region, territory that passed between German and Danish control across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This notgeld issue dates from 1918, when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation across Germany due to wartime metal requisitioning, forcing thousands of municipalities to print their own emergency pfennig notes. The signature of the Gemeindevorsteher, Andersen — a distinctly Danish name — reflects the mixed population of the region just months before the 1920 plebiscite that would return northern Schleswig to Denmark.
Broacker voted to remain with Germany in that referendum.