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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grundhof (Municipality of Grundhof) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and red-brown on a pink-toned paper. The header bears the legend "Landgemeen GRUNDHOF in Angeln" in bold letterpress, above a central composite coat of arms divided into nine quarters, each containing a symbolic vignette including a lion, a fish, a tree, a hammer, and other heraldic devices, all framed by elaborate acanthus scroll ornaments. The denomination "50 PF." appears in white on red vertical panels at left and right, with the issue date "1. Apr. 1920", the validity notice "Gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1921", the authority line "der Gemeindevorstand", and a manuscript signature below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and red-brown on pink-toned paper, with a central vignette of the Grundhof village church (Kirche Grundhof) set within a churchyard with gravestones and surrounding trees, the year 1757 visible on the church wall. The denomination "50 Pf." appears in shield cartouches at all four corners, with the header "GUTSCHEIN GEMEINDE GRUNDHOF" at top. Below the church vignette, a Low German verse inscription runs across a red panel, and a serial number box is printed at the bottom centre. |
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Grundhof is a small village in Schleswig, and this note is one of thousands of municipal emergency issues — Kommunales Notgeld — that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 as small change disappeared from circulation entirely. The aluminum and copper coinage of the imperial period had been absorbed into the war economy, and communities down to the parish level were left to solve the problem themselves.
The DeNG reference places this within a catalogued series, which at least confirms it was formally documented rather than dismissed as a fantasy issue — a real problem with some of the smaller Schleswig municipalities during this period.