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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Malente-Gremsmühlen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue and brown letterpress Notgeld note with a central vignette of a young woman's portrait in dark brown ink, wearing a floral wreath and dressed in period costume, flanked by small inset vignettes of a sailing boat on the left and a fisherman on a jetty on the right. Denomination medallions reading '50' are placed at upper left and upper right corners within scalloped frames, surrounded by a decorative blue floral underprint border. A broad blue ribbon cartouche below the portrait bears the inscription 'VOSS' LUISE' with the subtitle 'Das rosenwangige Mägdelein', and validity text in Gothic script runs along the lower margin with the date 'Malente, den 20. Nov. 1920' and the signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOT-GELD Pf. 50 Pf. Pf. 50 Pf. Dieksee Es gibt ohne Zweifel Landschaften von auffallenderer Schönheit, von grossartigerer Wirkung, von reicherer Fruchtbarkeit des Bodens, sicherlich aber keine, die lieblicher zum Auge und gewinnender zum Herzenguter, sinniger Menschen spricht als die unsrige. Joh. Heinr. Vohs. MALENTE-GREMSMÜHLEN DRUCK VON H.G. RAHTGENS, LÜBECK. |
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Malente-Gremsmühlen was a double-commune in Holstein — two distinct settlements administratively joined — and this Notgeld issue reflects the hyperinflationary pressures of 1920 that pushed even small rural municipalities to print their own emergency scrip when Reichsbank coin simply vanished from everyday transactions. H. G. Rahtgens in Lübeck handled a substantial volume of Holstein Notgeld printing during this period, supplying notes for dozens of small issuers across Schleswig-Holstein who lacked any local printing capacity of their own.
The DeNG reference places this as the first type from the issuer, suggesting at least a second followed as the shortage dragged on.