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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Husby (Municipality of Husby) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Olive-brown Notgeld note with a decorative border enclosing a central pastoral vignette of a farmstead reflected in a pond, captioned 'AM TEICH', flanked by two allegorical putti figures bearing floral garlands. The denomination '50' appears in a cartouche at upper right, with the legend 'NOTGELDSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE' across the top and 'HUSBY in ANGELN' at centre below; the municipal coat of arms is placed at the lower centre. The serial number is printed at lower left, with validity text and a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorstand at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELDSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE HUSBY in ANGELN AM TEICH 50 Nr. GÜLTIG BIS 15. DEZ. 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND |
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Husby is a small parish in the Schleswig district — territory that had been contested between Germany and Denmark for decades and had only just been formally partitioned in 1920 following the post-WWI plebiscites. This 50 Pfennig Notgeld was issued in the immediate aftermath of that division, when the municipality found itself on the German side of the new border and the national currency system was still functionally inadequate for small retail transactions.
Like most Schleswig-region Notgeld from 1921, this note belongs to the second wave of emergency coinage — issued less out of genuine coin shortage than from the collector market that had developed around the earlier functional issues.