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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Lügumkloster, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Light blue zigzag-pattern underprint covers the entire field, against which a large central oval vignette in orange-brown tones bears a standing ox in a pastoral landscape. A banner at top centre reads "PLEBISCIT"; the denomination "50 Pf" appears in bold Gothic script at upper left and upper right, flanked by the bilingual legends "DEUTCH-LAND" and "DANMARK" respectively. Below the vignette the date "LUGUMKLOSTER · DEN · 10. FEBRUAR · 1920" and the issuing authority "DER · BURGERMEISTER" are inscribed, with a facsimile mayoral signature to the right and the town seal bearing a Latin cross at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | PLEBISCIT 50 Pf DEUTCH-LAND DANMARK Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. Denne Pengeseddel mister sin Gyldighed en Maaned efter offentlig Bekendtgørelse. 1920 LUGUMKLOSTER · DEN · 10 · FEBRUAR · 1920 DER · BURGERMEISTER · |
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Lügumkloster — Løgumkloster in Danish — sits in the former Duchy of Schleswig, a territory whose national allegiance was only settled by plebiscite in February 1920, just months before this note was issued. The town voted to remain part of Denmark in that referendum, yet this Notgeld was still denominated in Pfennig and printed in Flensburg, which itself voted to stay German. The note exists in a precise administrative gap: the plebiscite had resolved the border question, but the formal transfer of North Schleswig to Denmark was not completed until May 1920.
Gebr. & Kunze were a workhorse Flensburg printer for regional Notgeld, and Eggeling designed several issues in the series. Worth noting for collectors: the issuing municipality was Danish by then, making this arguably the only Pfennig-denominated municipal note ever issued by a de facto Danish town.