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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Stellau in Steinburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld von Stellau STELLAU. 1. AUG. 21 GÜLTIG B. 1. MAI 22 |
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| Reverse lettering | Im Dunkel der Gegenwart. Die Jugend, die Hoffnung. Bestimmt historisch ist die Schlacht b. Stellau 1201 zwischen Waldemar Seier und dem finsteren Alf (Adolf) dem Dritten. Waldemar verfolgte seinen Sieg. Unedel genug ließ er den gefangenen Adolf wie ein wildes Tier in den Käfig sperren. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre später rächte der vierte Adolf, Holstenstolz genannt, seinen Vater am Marien-Magdalenentag auf der Hochebene von Bornhöved. . ` . ` . Liliencron |
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Stellau is a village in Holstein that in 1921 had a population measured in the hundreds. Like thousands of other German municipalities during the postwar Kleingeldersatz crisis, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The Steinburg district produced a notable volume of such issues, many printed by regional printers working under heavy demand and short deadlines.
Stellau's series is among the more obscure district issues, and collector interest tends to be narrow — parish-level Notgeld from villages this small survives mainly through the organized collecting campaigns that were already underway by 1921, not through genuine circulation wear.