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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipalities of Appeln, Frelsdorf, Frelsdorfermühlen, Meyerhof, Osterndorf, Wehldorf, and Wollingst |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Söben Dörper-Schien Pfg Mit söben hefft wi besloten, disse lütjen Schiens to moken, geern schickt wi jem in alle Welt, denn hefft wi jo ok Wesselgeld. GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDEN: Appeln, Frelsdorf, Frelsdorfermühlen, Meyerhof, Osterndorf, Wehldorf, Wollingst. Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt durch die Spar- u. Darlehenskasse Meyerhof. Der Zeitpunkt zur Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgemacht. Appeln, den 15. Nov. 1921. Der Beauftragte: Gemeinbevorstener. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed predominantly in dark olive-green and salmon-pink on cream paper, divided into two panels. The left panel carries a salmon-tinted vignette captioned '"Ablösung"' showing a rural scene with a timber-framed farmhouse, a construction scaffold, and labourers at work. The right panel contains a detailed letterpress scene of seven men seated and standing around a table, two of whom hold documents inscribed "Freibrief", evoking a formal assembly or council. Along the lower margin, the denomination "50 Pfg" appears in large white letters on a dark ground, accompanied by a Low German dialect inscription. |
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Seven small rural parishes in the Zeven district of Lower Saxony pooled their issuing authority to produce this note — an unusual collective arrangement even by the loose standards of the German Notgeld period. Most communal Notgeld was issued by a single municipality or chamber; a joint issue across seven distinct administrative units suggests either a cooperative printing economy or a shared response to a specific local cash shortage in early 1921, when small-denomination coin remained chronically scarce across the German interior.
The DeNG 2#38.1 reference places it within a well-documented but thinly circulated regional type.