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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Flensburg (City of Flensburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Pictorial vignette in olive-khaki and polychrome letterpress by the artist Holtz, showing the crowded streets of Flensburg on 14 March 1920 — the day of the Schleswig plebiscite — with throngs of jubilant citizens surrounding the Gothic spire of St. Marien church, the scene festooned with large German black-white-red tricolour flags and smaller Danish Dannebrog pennants. A circular stamp-style device at lower centre bears the inscription 'Deutsches Reich' enclosing the denomination '50 Pfennig'. The place name 'Flensburg' is set in large Gothic display lettering across the bottom panel, with the printer's imprint in small roman type at the lower left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Holtz 14·MÄRZ FLENSBVRG 1920 DEVTSCH Deutsches Reich 50 Pfennig Flensburg Aug. Westphalen, Flensburg |
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Flensburg's 1921 Notgeld issues were produced under unusual political pressure. The city had only just voted in the March 1920 plebiscite to remain within Germany — the vote split sharply along the Flensburg Fjord, with the town itself choosing Germany while the surrounding rural zone went to Denmark. The resulting border settlement left Flensburg as a rump German city with a newly severed hinterland, disrupted trade flows, and a local economy that drove chronic small-change shortages well into 1921.
Aug. Westphalen was a local Flensburg printer, not a specialist Notgeld house, which is why the production quality on this series varies noticeably across denominations. Designer Holtz is otherwise unattributed in the standard Notgeld literature.