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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bullenkuhlen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 88 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground enclosed by a blue rectangular border. The municipal arms of Bullenkuhlen — a red heraldic shield bearing a large white mullet or star charge — occupies the centre as the principal vignette, printed in red. The denomination '50 PF' appears in bold red numerals at the upper left and upper right, with the issuer legend 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BULLENKUHLEN' in black letterpress across the top. Flanking the shield on both sides, in blue letterpress, is the inscription 'AMTSBEZIRK BEVERN', and at the foot the validity notice reads 'DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 31. DEZBR. 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT', accompanied by two manuscript signatures with role designations 'Der Amtsausschuß' and 'Der Amtsvorsteher' and a hand-stamped serial number. |
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| Reverse description | White ground within a double blue rectangular frame. The central vignette is a landscape scene rendered in black and blue letterpress, showing a harbour or river view with sailing vessels and masts silhouetted against a dramatic cloudscape, suggesting the flat waterways of the Holstein region. The denomination '50 PF' is repeated in bold red at the left and right margins outside the inner frame, providing the sole textual element on this side. |
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Bullenkuhlen is among the smallest municipalities ever to issue notgeld — a village in Schleswig-Holstein with a population that barely reached three figures in the early 1920s. The sheer volume of German emergency money issued between 1914 and 1923 included thousands of local authorities, but very few were this small. Whether this note ever saw genuine transactional use or was printed primarily for the collector trade that had grown up around series notgeld by 1921 is an open question — by that point many municipalities were issuing deliberately for philatelic sale rather than economic necessity.