50 Pfennig

Rödding — known in Danish as Rødding — sits in the former Schleswig plebiscite zone. This note was issued in 1920, the same year the region's fate was being decided by the post-WWI referendum that ultimately returned northern Schleswig to Denmark. Rödding voted to rejoin Denmark in the February 1920 poll, and the municipality became part of the Kingdom of Denmark that June. A local authority issuing emergency Pfennig scrip while simultaneously voting to leave Germany makes this a peculiar artifact of that precise, compressed moment of transition.

The signatory, J. C. Hansen, bears a distinctly Danish name — unsurprising given the area's demographics, but worth noting for a note denominated in German currency and issued under German municipal authority.