50 Pfennig

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.