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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinfeld, Kreis Schleswig |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-orange ground with a polychrome letterpress design framed by a red-and-black ornamental border with teal corner rosettes bearing the denomination '50 PF.' in each corner. A central oval vignette, wreathed in an olive garland, carries a portrait bust in right profile of Uwe Jens Lornsen (inscribed 'Uwe Jens Lornsen 1793–1838'), set against two pairs of crossed Schleswig flags in red, white, and teal. A ribbon scroll across the centre reads 'Up ewig ungedeelt', and the lower panel bears the issue date '30. Juli 1920.', the validity legend, the issuing authority signature block 'Der Gemeindevorstand', and a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN über FÜNFZIG PFENNIG Up ewig ungedeelt Uwe Jens Lornsen 1793–1838 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 30. JUNI 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT. DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND 30. JULI 1920. |
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Steinfeld is a small parish in the Schleswig district, and this 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded northern Germany after the Reichsbank suspended small-denomination coin circulation. Kreis Schleswig sits in the territory that was at the center of the Danish-German plebiscite of February 1920 — the very year this note was printed — when the region's population voted on whether to remain German or join Denmark. Steinfeld fell in Zone 2, which voted to stay German.
That political moment almost certainly shaped the timing and imagery choices of local Notgeld issuers across the Kreis.