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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hadersleben (City of Hadersleben) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN STADT-HADERSLEBEN MAGISTRAT. STADTVERORD. PLEBISCIT · SLESVIG · -1920- MAERZ -1920- UNGULTIG 1 MONAT NACH ANKÜNDIGUNG 50 FÜNFZIG PFENNIG 50 Hartung & Co. Hamburg |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a warm ochre and gold horizontal-line underprint filling the field. At centre, a large oval vignette bordered by a dashed frame presents a polychrome view of Hadersleben cathedral rising above the fjord, flanked at the lower edge by two crossed Danish flags in red and white with the year '1920' inscribed between them; the initials 'H.M.' appear to the lower right of the vignette. Below, a rectangular text panel in black letterpress carries a Danish-language inscription in two lines, and the denomination numeral '50' with a small 'p' superscript is repeated in each upper corner. |
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Hadersleben — today the Danish town of Haaderslev — was transferred from Germany to Denmark in February 1920 following the Schleswig plebiscite, one of the post-Versailles border adjustments that reshaped the region after centuries of contested sovereignty. This note was issued during that same transitional year, when the city's administrative status was literally in flux and the German mark was still the operative currency even as political control shifted.
Notgeld from municipalities in the plebiscite zone is among the more historically charged emergency currency of the period. Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld commissions in 1919–1920, running tight production schedules as dozens of German cities scrambled to cover small-denomination shortages.