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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bosau, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with a decorative geometric border incorporating foliate and interlaced ornamental motifs. A central vignette presents a traditional North German half-timbered farmhouse set among tall trees, framed by cartouche-style panels with scrollwork at left and right. The lower portion carries the date 'Bosau, den 15. Mai 1921' flanked by two bold denomination panels reading '50 Pfennige' in black on dark ground, with two manuscript signatures below the validity clause. |
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| Obverse lettering | Diese Anweisung verliert ihre Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Ankündigung. Bosau, den 15. Mai 1921 50 Pfennige |
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Hugo Steiner-Prag was a Czech-born illustrator best known for his expressionist woodcut-style work on literary editions — his 1915 illustrations for Der Golem are still referenced in print history. His involvement in German Notgeld design was not unusual for the period; municipalities commissioning artistically ambitious emergency currency often recruited established graphic names rather than commercial job printers. Jütte in Leipzig had the production infrastructure to realize that kind of work at scale.
Bosau is a small community on the Kellersee in Schleswig-Holstein, which made its Notgeld issues a collector target almost immediately upon release — the 1921 series was printed with the secondary market firmly in mind.