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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tostedt (Municipality of Tostedt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette in yellow and blue-green tones shows a horse-drawn cart laden with goods traversing a rural road flanked by two tall trees, with a small chapel visible at left. Two milestone pillars bear the directional inscriptions 'Bremen' at left and 'Hamburg' at right, with the dates '1821' and '1921' marking the centenary of the locality. Below, a frieze illustrates a steam locomotive pulling a train of carriages across the full width of the note. At centre, a yellow diamond-patterned panel bears the large denomination numeral '50' alongside the issuing authority text and validity clause, signed by the Gemeindevorstand. |
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| Obverse lettering | TOSTEDT 50 Gutschein der Gemeinde Tostedt über fünfzig Pfennig. Ungültig, wenn nicht 3 Monate nach erfolgtem Aufruf eingelöst. DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND. Gerlach. Bremen. Hamburg. 1821. 1921. |
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Tostedt is a small market town in the Harburg district of Lower Saxony, and this 50 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by German municipalities between 1920 and 1922, when chronic small-coin shortages forced local authorities to print their own fractional currency. Jänecke in Hannover was a prolific Notgeld printer, producing series for dozens of communities across northern Germany, which means quality control was generally reliable but the designs were often rushed to order.
The reference number places this within the DeNG 1/2 corpus — the standard cataloguing of German municipal emergency money. Tostedt issued at minimum one series, with this piece logged as 1332.1.