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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Land-Gemeinde Eutin (Municipality of Eutin-Land) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a traditional North German half-timbered farmhouse set beneath large deciduous trees, rendered in a lithographic illustrative style in brown and green tones on a beige ground. The title inscription "Notgeld der" appears at the top in Gothic blackletter script, with "Land-Gemeinde Eutin" in large decorative script below the vignette. Denomination panels at lower left and right each read "50 Pfg." in ornamental frames, while a green band at the foot carries the validity clause and facsimile signatures of the Gemeinde Vorstand. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Land-Gemeinde Eutin 50 Pfg. Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt 4 Wochen nach Bekanntmachung. Der Gemeinde Vorstand: |
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Eutin-Land was the rural district surrounding the town of Eutin in Schleswig-Holstein, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 reflects the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well into the post-WWI inflation period even after the armistice economy had nominally stabilized. Rahtgens in Lübeck printed a substantial volume of municipal notgeld for northern German issuers during this window — competent, regional work rather than the elaborate collector-targeted Serienscheine that had begun flooding the market by the same year.
The DeNG reference 0358.1 distinguishes the Land-Gemeinde issue from the separate notgeld produced by the town of Eutin itself, a distinction that dealers frequently collapse.