50 Pfennig

Apenrade — now Aabenraa in southern Denmark — issued this note in 1920 during one of the more administratively tangled moments in German numismatic history. The Schleswig plebiscite of February that year had already been held, and Zone 1, which included Apenrade, voted to reunite with Denmark. The city was formally transferred to Danish sovereignty on 15 June 1920, meaning this Magistrat-issued emergency currency was circulating in a town that was, politically speaking, in the process of ceasing to be German.

Whether notes issued before the transfer remained in local use during the transition period is an open question. The Magistrat's authority to issue Notgeld effectively expired with German administration.