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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Prisdorf (Municipality of Prisdorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue notgeld note printed in dark brown letterpress, with the heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Prisdorf' in Gothic script at top, followed by the administrative designation 'com. Amtsbezirk Pinneberg'. The central vignette carries the large numeral '50' flanked by oak branch sprays, with silhouetted conifer trees, a post horn, a crescent moon, and a starburst motif distributed across the field. A red serial number appears to the lower right, with two facsimile signatures below the redemption text, and the printer's imprint 'Konrad Hanf Hamburg 8.' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Light blue note with a bold woodcut-style vignette occupying the upper two-thirds of the face, showing a stag standing in a dense forest clearing amid undergrowth, mushrooms, and flowering plants, rendered in stark dark brown against the pale ground. Denomination panels inscribed '50 PFENNIG' in plain frames appear in the upper left and upper right corners. A lower panel in Gothic script carries the issuer's name in two lines. |
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Prisdorf is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein — population barely in the hundreds even today — and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 was entirely typical of the period, when municipal authorities across Germany scrambled to fill the void left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with inflation-driven hoarding, and thousands of towns, however modest, took matters into their own hands.
Konrad Hanf of Hamburg was a commercial printer who handled notgeld commissions for numerous small Schleswig-Holstein municipalities during this period, not a specialist security printer. The reference number DeNG 1/2#1076.1 suggests this is the first — and likely only — type recorded for Prisdorf.