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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Selsingen (Municipality of Selsingen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Selsingen Börd Selsinger Dracht Dat Hart: eerin lacht. Dieser Gutschein wird mit 50 Pf. von der Gemeindekasse und der Sparkasse Selsingen bis zum 1. Januar 1923 eingelöst. Selsingen, den 1. August 1920. Der Gemeindevorstand: Die Gemeindevertretung: 50 |
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| Reverse lettering | Ach Stün'n Arbeit is nich got, denn hebbt wi un de Stadt keen Brot. Wenn wi abers düchtig schafft, denn het dat ganze Volk ok Kraft. Gebrüder Jänecke, Druck- und Verlagshaus, Hannover. 50 |
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Selsingen is a small parish in Lower Saxony, and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1920 was entirely typical of the Weimar-era Notgeld phenomenon — municipalities across Germany stepped in to fill a genuine coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was one of the more prolific commercial printers serving this demand, producing Notgeld for dozens of small issuers across the region, which means the printing quality here is competent but not artistically ambitious.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented series, suggesting at least one additional denomination was issued alongside it.