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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Süderbrarup (Municipality of Süderbrarup) |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan and dark brown Notgeld note with a central folk-art vignette of a reclining pig surrounded by stylized foliage, stars, a crescent moon, and decorative geometric motifs. The denomination '50 Pf' appears in large Gothic numerals at left and right, flanking the central image. Below the vignette, three lines of text give the validity clause and place of issue, with a handwritten serial number and signature at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Dies Stück hilft dir Papier wie mir 50 PF GÜLTIG·BIS·ZUR·EINMONATLICHEN·KÜNDIGUNG IN·DER·SCHLESWIG·HOLSTEINISCHEN·LANDPOST. SÜDER·BRARUP·JULI·1920····GEMEINDEVORSTAND. Nr: |
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Süderbrarup is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, not far from the Danish border — a detail that matters here, because this note was issued just as the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites were dividing the region between Germany and Denmark. Notgeld from this zone carries a peculiar political weight that most small-town emergency coinage does not. Whether the municipality was responding to coin shortages or to the general financial disruption of the plebiscite period is difficult to say with certainty, but the timing is not coincidental.
K. Möller designed several Schleswig-Holstein Notgeld issues in this period, producing work that leaned toward regional imagery.