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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Seeth-Ekholt (Municipality of Seeth-Ekholt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note with a black outer border enclosing the text and vignette elements, printed in black and green. Flanking the central field are two stylised topiary trees in green with black circular motifs, each set on a green square plinth bearing a white heart device. At the top centre, a shield-shaped municipal arms vignette separates the inscription "SEETH-EEKHOLT", above which the script legend "Notgeld der Gemeinde" appears. The denomination "50 PF" is printed in large black numerals to the left and right of the central text "AMTSBEZIRK BEVERN" in green letterpress, with a red overprinted serial number below. The lower portion carries the validity clause and two manuscript signatures above their respective authority designations. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50PF |
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Seeth-Ekholt is a small parish municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note belongs to the vast wave of German Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — issued by municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives between 1916 and 1922 to compensate for the disappearance of metallic coinage from everyday commerce. By 1921, coin hoarding and metal requisitioning had made low-denomination transactions nearly impossible without local paper supplements.
The DeNG reference situates this within the standard Notgeld catalog for German municipal issues. Seeth-Ekholt's output was small-volume by any measure, which is why individual pieces from minor Schleswig-Holstein parishes tend to disappear from the market for years at a stretch.