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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bönningstedt (Municipality of Bönningstedt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Bönningstedt ( Com. Amtsbezirk Pinneberg ) 50 Pf Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit zwo Wochen nach Aufruf im Pinneberger Tageblatt u. Lockstedter Anzeiger der Finanzausschuß der com. Amtsvorst. KONRAD HANF · HAMBURG 8 |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue and white, the reverse carries bold geometric interlocking chevron patterns with large numeral '50' at the left and right. A central sketch-style vignette in folk-art manner portrays a kneeling or crouching human figure set against a light shield-shaped underprint, with the words 'fünfzig' and 'Pfennige' positioned in the upper and lower areas respectively. A Low German dialect motto in blackletter script is inscribed below the central vignette. |
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Bönningstedt is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, was forced into issuing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving. Postwar inflation was already eroding purchasing power faster than the mint could respond, and rural communities were left to solve the problem themselves.
Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg printer who handled Notgeld commissions for numerous small northern German municipalities during this period. The 80 × 55 mm format was common for his output at this scale.