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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Flensburg (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 83 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTSCHEIN FLENSBURG ÜBER Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter amtlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats in den Flensburger Zeitungen zur Einlösung bei der Stadthauptkasse in Flensburg oder den in der Bekanntmachung genannten Banken vorgelegt wird Neu-Ausgabe 16.1.20 Flensburg den 1. August 1919 Der Magistrat Das Stadtverordneten-Kollegium DE NOTIS WOR DE KRAEFT IS DOR DE WEG IS KLOR |
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| Reverse lettering | FLENSBURGER NOTGELD DEUTSCHLAND DANNMARK 14.3.1920 GEBH & KUNZE FLENSBURG |
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Flensburg's 1920 Notgeld issue appeared during an exceptionally charged moment: the town sat at the center of the Schleswig plebiscite, the February and March 1920 votes that would determine whether the region returned to Denmark or remained German. The city voted overwhelmingly to stay in Germany, and the border was drawn just north of Flensburg that summer. Local Notgeld issued in this window carries that political weight whether its issuers intended it or not.
Gebh. & Kunze were a Flensburg printing house, making this a genuinely local production rather than one of the Leipzig or Berlin trade jobs that supplied most municipal Notgeld. Designer J. Holtz is otherwise obscure in the Notgeld literature.