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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Büdelsdorf (Municipality of Büdelsdorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out within a decorative cartouche border with scalloped corners in olive-green and black. A curved red ribbon banner across the upper portion carries the legend GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE in white letterpress, below which the municipality name Büdelsdorf appears in bold Gothic blackletter script, with Holstein printed in red beneath. At centre, a large black oval medallion contains the denomination numeral 50 flanked by the abbreviation PF on each side in white, set against guilloche-style fine-line underprint; symmetrical foliate ornamental scrolls in olive flank the oval on either side. The lower portion bears two lines of Gothic script text citing the validity clause and the authorising signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 C✕H Eisenwerk Carlshütte / errichtet 1827 De Tied is schwor / dat Geld is knapp- wie wät, wat uns is nütt- Wie makt Notgeld in Büdelsdorp und Pütt up de Carlshütt. C.L. |
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Büdelsdorf, a small industrial town on the Eider river in Schleswig-Holstein, issued this note during the height of Germany's postwar Kleingeldnot — the small-change famine that followed WWI and drove thousands of municipalities to print their own emergency currency. The 1921 date places it squarely in the transitional period between the earlier Kriegsnotgeld and the hyperinflationary collapse that rendered all such notes worthless by 1923.
Leck & Rotermundt were a Hamburg commercial print house, not a specialist banknote printer — workmanlike output, no security features worth noting.