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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bordesholm (Municipality of Bordesholm) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Executed in olive-green and teal tones, the reverse centres on a vignette signed by the artist Holtz, showing a group of figures dancing in a ring beneath a large, gnarled oak tree, with a seated mother and child to the right and a small child playing at the far right; a notice board hangs from a branch in the background. Teal shield-shaped cartouches on either side carry an interlaced Gothic monogram. The upper border bears the Low German motto "GRUNDWATERKRAFT IS NOT" and the lower panel repeats the issuer name in bold sans-serif capitals. |
| Reverse lettering | GRUNDWATERKRAFT IS NOT NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BORDESHOLM |
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Bordesholm is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 as coin shortages made small-change transactions nearly impossible. Aug. Westphalen was a Flensburg commercial printer responsible for a significant volume of regional Kleingeldscheine, working to tight deadlines for dozens of municipalities simultaneously — which is why designer credits like "Holtz" are relatively rare to find on notes of this type and worth noting when present.
The DeNG reference subdivides this into four varieties (144.1–4), likely distinguished by serial number ranges or minor color differences across the print run.