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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bordesholm (Municipality of Bordesholm) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 94 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BORDESHOLM Gültig bis zum 31. Dez. 1921 Bordesholm den 30. Juni 1921 Der Gemeindevorsteher. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a full-face lithographic vignette of the celebrated ancient linden tree of Bordesholm, rendered in warm ochre, olive, and brown tones, its massive spreading canopy dominating the composition with a low stone wall and small structures visible at its base. A six-line poetic text in Gothic script is set against the sky around the tree's canopy, referencing the history of Holstein and Germany's reunification. At the lower margin, a solid olive-gold panel bears the inscription 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BORDESHOLM' in white letterpress, with the artist's signature 'Holtz' at lower left. |
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Bordesholm is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note is a product of the postwar Kleingeldersatz crisis — the acute small-change shortage that hit German municipalities hard in 1920–21 as metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Thousands of Gemeinden printed their own Notgeld to fill the gap, and Aug. Westphalen of Flensburg was a regional printer that handled a number of these local issues across Schleswig-Holstein.
The DeNG reference catalogues four known varieties (144.1–3/4), suggesting the municipality issued the note in multiple text or color variants — not unusual for a series intended partly for local collectors, who by 1921 were actively driving the Notgeld market as much as any genuine monetary need.