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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Harburg |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse is set in a Blackletter (Fraktur) typeface throughout. Four circular guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral '50' occupy each corner, flanked by ornamental arabesques forming a symmetrical underprint frame. The central text reads 'Wechselschein zur Aushilfe / Pfennig 50 Pfennig', followed by a redemption clause stating notes would be exchanged in lots of 5 Mark by the Kämmereikasse der Stadt Harburg, dated 'Harburg, den 5. Juli 1919', and bearing the authority line 'Magistrat der Stadt Harburg' with a manuscript signature below. |
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| Signature(s) | Denicke |
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Harburg's municipal administration issued this Notgeld note in 1919, at a time when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from everyday transactions — hoarded, melted, or simply lost to wartime chaos. Hundreds of German towns and cities issued their own emergency paper in this period, and the Magistrat der Stadt Harburg was one among them, signing with a single administrative signature from Denicke.
Harburg itself was then still an independent city on the south bank of the Elbe, not yet absorbed into Hamburg — that annexation came in 1937. A minor but genuine distinction for provenance purposes.