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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schobüll (Municipality of Schobüll) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two panels within a decorative scalloped border printed in dark red. The left panel carries the denomination text and issuer inscription on a light grey underprint, with a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (municipal head) and a four-line verse in German below. The right panel presents a hand-coloured rural vignette of a farmer in traditional dress accompanied by a young woman with a long braid, set against a pastoral landscape with a farmhouse, trees, and a cow in the background; a caption in red runs beneath the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT GELD der Gemeinde Schobüll über 50 Pfg. Der Gemeindevorsteher. Niedliches Mädchen erkor sich ein Bauer zur Frau Sie war aber einem Soldaten gut, u. bat ihren Alten schlau. Er sollte doch fahren in's Heu Ach, Männchen so fahr' doch in's Heu |
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Schobüll is a coastal village in Schleswig-Holstein with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred — which makes its 1921 notgeld issue one of the more geographically marginal emergency currency efforts of the Weimar period. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own small-denomination scrip between 1919 and 1922 to address the severe coin shortage, but notes from settlements this small were often produced in tiny runs, sometimes as much for local philatelic trade as for genuine transactional use.
The Collector's notgeld phenomenon was already well underway by 1921, with printers marketing decorative series to hobbyists across Germany and abroad. Whether Schobüll's issue was purely functional or partly aimed at that market is difficult to establish with certainty from surviving examples alone.