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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Suchsdorf |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central multicolour vignette set against a yellow ground, illustrating a historical scene from 1864 at the Eiderkanal drawbridge near Levensau: Danish troops bearing a white-cross flag retreat across the wooden bridge while Prussian soldiers advance from the right bank through dense foliage. Decorative red geometric border panels flank both sides, with the denomination numeral '50' and abbreviation 'PF' at each corner. The issuer title 'NOTGELD SUCHSDORF' appears in bold Gothic lettering along the top, and a lower grey panel carries the validity inscription and a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD SUCHSDORF 50 PF Die Dänen rücken beim Annähern der Preußen übr die Eiderkanal-Schlagbrücke bei Levensau (1864) DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 31. AUGUST 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT Gemeindevorsteher |
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Suchsdorf was a small village north of Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, and like thousands of German municipalities in the early 1920s it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to fill the coin shortage that had been grinding on since the war. A print run of over twelve million for a settlement of a few hundred people is the real story here: Suchsdorf's Notgeld was printed speculatively for the collector trade, not for local commerce. By 1921 the secondary market for decorative small-denomination Notgeld had become a minor industry in itself, with municipalities deliberately overprinting to sell sets to collectors across Germany and abroad.
The practical consequence is that genuine circulation examples are actually harder to find than pristine unissued ones.