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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Bönningstedt |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the denomination value and issuer name within a decorative border typical of early Weimar-era Notgeld, with guilloche underprint elements framing the central text panel. The inscription identifies the issuing municipality and administrative district, with serial numbering printed in red. A note of validity conditions references the Pinneberger Tageblatt and Lockstedter Anzeiger newspapers, with facsimile signatures of local officials at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central vignette rendered in a woodcut or line-engraving style, showing a solitary male figure striding across an open rural landscape with a plough visible behind him, evoking themes of agricultural labor and rural freedom. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals within decorative panels at left and right, flanked by the words 'fünfzig' at upper corners and 'Pfennige' at lower corners, all set against a light blue geometric guilloche underprint. A Low German motto is printed beneath the central vignette. |
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Bönningstedt is a small village northwest of Hamburg, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is precisely the kind of hyperlocal emergency scrip that proliferates in German municipal catalogues from this period — printed by Konrad Hanf, a Hamburg firm that handled a significant volume of Schleswig-Holstein Notgeld during the inflationary years. The Gra#133.1a-4/6 designation indicates this is one of several variants within the series, distinguished by serial number ranges or minor printing differences rather than substantive design changes.
Bönningstedt's population at the time was under a thousand. That a municipality this size issued formal printed scrip speaks directly to how completely the Reichsmark small-change shortage had penetrated even peripheral communities by 1921.