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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Buxtehude (City of Buxtehude) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a teal guilloche underprint of interlocking spiral rosettes covering the central field, with bold letterpress text stating the denomination in two forms — 'FÜNFZIG' above and '50 PFENNIG 50' below. Four corner vignettes rendered in stark silhouette depict local fauna and heraldic motifs: a hare (upper left), a wolf or lion rampant (upper right), a hedgehog with a bottle (lower left), and crossed keys with a decorative cartouche (lower right). The validity inscription 'GÜLTIG BIS 1. OKTOBER 1920' appears at the foot of the central panel, framed by an ornate foliate border. |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. Beyz and H. Lühning |
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Buxtehude's 1919 notgeld issue is typical of the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded northern Germany after the Armistice, when coin shortages and monetary instability forced hundreds of small towns to print their own fractional denominations. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was one of the more active regional printers during this period, producing notgeld for numerous Lower Saxony municipalities simultaneously — which sometimes created subtle design similarities across otherwise unrelated issues.
The Joh. Grossmann design credit is uncommon enough to be worth noting; most Jänecke-printed notgeld from this period carried no individual designer attribution at all.