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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 | Notgeld issue printed in brown and green on white paper, with a scalloped decorative border enclosing a bipartite layout. The left panel carries the denomination and issuer inscription in bold letterpress, accompanied by a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher and a humorous verse in Gothic script. The right panel presents a two-scene comic vignette in a Jugendstil illustrative manner: at left, a crouching figure peers through a keyhole in a green door, while at right a couple embraces before a wallpapered interior with a framed picture visible on the wall. |
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| Protection type | Cut-out apertures |
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Schobüll is a coastal village in Schleswig-Holstein with a population that, even today, barely reaches four figures. That a municipality this small was issuing its own emergency currency in 1921 says everything about how completely the Weimar Republic's monetary infrastructure had collapsed under postwar inflation — small coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and communities down to the parish level were left to fill the gap themselves.
The cut-out apertures are the notable feature here. This perforation technique was used by some Notgeld issuers as a rudimentary anti-counterfeiting measure, the logic being that clean die-cut holes were harder to replicate than printed security elements.