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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Broacker, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 90 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | At left, a heraldic vignette in the form of a shield cartouche bears the Imperial German double-headed eagle in black, flanked by the dates 1864 and 1919. To the right, a large underprint numeral '50' serves as background to the Gothic-script text 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig' with the facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (municipal headman) Bentzen below; the denomination '50' appears again within a dotted circular frame at lower right, with a serial number panel at the bottom center. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Broacker. Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig eBentzen Gemeindevorsteher. |
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Broacker — a small municipality on the Schlei Fjord in Schleswig — issued this note during the wave of Kleingeldersatz (small change substitute) production that swept northern Germany in 1919, when coin metal remained scarce following wartime requisitioning and post-armistice economic disruption. Hundreds of municipalities issued their own Notgeld in this period, but Schleswig-region pieces carry an additional layer of significance: the plebiscite over Danish-German border placement was pending, and local identity was politically charged.
The municipality itself was a genuinely tiny issuing authority, which kept print runs low. That limited distribution is why Broacker Notgeld turns up far less frequently than comparable issues from larger Schleswig towns.