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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Flensburg (City of Flensburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Gebr. & Kunze, Flensburg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red-orange on an uncoloured paper ground, with a bold black gothic border bearing Low German dialect mottoes on all four sides. A prominent wavy-line guilloche underprint fills the central field, over which the denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" is rendered in large Kurrent script beneath the heading "ÜBER". The lower portion carries a multi-line German text clause specifying the conditions of validity, an issue date of 16.I.20, and the authorising bodies "Der Magistrat" and "Das Stadtverordneten-Kollegium", followed by manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a three-colour letterpress vignette by the artist Holtz, enclosed within an ornamental red guilloche border with scrollwork corners. The central illustration shows three figures — a woman flanked by a boy and a man — viewed from behind, gathered around a barber's-pole-style boundary marker inscribed "DEUTSCHLAND" and "DANNMARK", alluding to the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite; a pale blue underprint of the Flensburg coat of arms and the numeral "50" fills the background. The heading "FLENSBURGER NOTGELD" is set in large black gothic lettering across the top, with the printer's imprint "GEBN & KUNZE FLENSBURG" along the lower margin. |
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Flensburg sits on the Danish border, and 1920 was perhaps the most politically charged year in its modern history — the Schleswig plebiscites of February and March that year divided the duchy, with northern Schleswig voting to join Denmark and the Flensburg zone itself voting narrowly to remain German. This note was issued directly into that atmosphere of contested identity and economic instability, when municipal authorities across Germany were printing their own Notgeld simply to keep small-change transactions functioning.
Gebr. & Kunze were a Flensburg-based printer, which makes this a genuinely local production — design, printing, and circulation all within the same city. The designer credit to Holtz is noted but the given name is unrecorded in the standard Notgeld literature.