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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Christiansfeld, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Christiansfeld Gut für 50 Pfennige Wird 14 Tage nach der Abtretung vom Flecken Christiansfeld eingelöst. Fleckenkollegium |
| Reverse description | Reverse printed in the same green, red, and black colour scheme with a matching teal guilloche border, here carrying the Danish town name KRISTIANSFELT in large red letters and the date MARTS 1920 repeated at both upper corners. The left oval vignette repeats the tree-lined avenue scene, while the right oval vignette presents a draped Danish national flag. The denomination 50 PENNING is set in bold red numerals at centre, accompanied by a bilingual redemption text in Danish, with four manuscript signatures of the Flækkekollegiet along the lower margin. |
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Christiansfeld is a Moravian Brethren settlement in southern Jutland, founded in 1773 and granted to Denmark by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 following the post-WWI plebiscite that redrew the German-Danish border. This note was issued during that transitional period — the town had been German for over a century, and local authorities across the region were printing emergency Kleingeld to compensate for the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that had plagued Germany since the war years and did not resolve cleanly at the border when sovereignty changed hands.
The Moravian community's unusually disciplined civic administration made Christiansfeld's Notgeld among the better-managed local issues of the period.