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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Leck (Municipality of Leck) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Warm ochre and salmon ground enclosed by a double-ruled brown border, with a central letterpress vignette in naive watercolour style showing the Leck village panorama: a red-spired church tower rises above a treeline of green and yellow foliage with cottages to the right. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig.' is inscribed in Gothic script below the vignette, flanked at lower left by a validity clause and at lower right by the facsimile signature of Gemeinde-Vorsteher Jacobsen. The heading 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE LECK.' runs along the upper margin. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow ground with a central architectural vignette of the Krieger-Ehrenmal (war memorial) of the Gemeinde Leck, rendered as a neoclassical stepped monument with relief panels on its upper structure and colonnaded wings to either side, set within an arched foliate surround. Denomination cartouches reading '50 Pfg.' appear in red-rimmed circles at the upper left and upper right corners within decorative acanthus ornaments. A lower caption panel in Gothic script identifies the monument. |
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Leck is a small town in Schleswig, the region that had just been partitioned between Germany and Denmark following the 1920 plebiscite mandated by the Treaty of Versailles. This note was issued the following year, when the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate small change had forced thousands of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency — Kleingeldscheine — to keep local commerce moving. The signature of Jacobsen is a distinctly Danish name, unremarkable for this border district but a quiet marker of the demographic mix the plebiscite had left behind.
The DeNG reference indicates two known varieties within this denomination.