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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gnarrenburg (Municipality of Gnarrenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Colourful Notgeld note with an Art Nouveau-inspired border of curling foliate scrollwork in teal, yellow, and gold against a light ground, punctuated by four red dot ornaments at the corners. A large central oval vignette on an olive-green underprint carries the bold red denomination numeral '50' in letterpress, surrounded by two circular inscription bands stating the redemption conditions and a local Low German motto. Two signature cartouches at the lower left and right bear manuscript signatures for the Gemeindevorsteher and the Gemeindevertretung respectively, with the printer's imprint 'Druck: v. Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover' below. |
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| Reverse lettering | WIE-BEDRÓWT-WÓR-WOLL-DISSE-WELT HARN-WIE-NICHT-DATT-GNARRENBORGER-GELD GEMEINDE GNARRENBURG RUINS GNARRENBURG HARP-BORGWEDE |
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Gnarrenburg is a small municipality in the Rotenburg district of Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of comparable German towns it resorted to locally authorized Notgeld during the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s. The Jänecke firm in Hannover — formally Gebrüder Jänecke, later Jänecke & Schneemann — was one of the more prolific printers of small-denomination municipal emergency currency in the region, handling commissions from dozens of Lower Saxon communities in this period.
Gnarrenburg's issues are not among the more widely collected Niedersachsen Notgeld series, which keeps acquisition costs modest even for cleaner survivors.