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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Husby (Municipality of Husby) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse with an elaborate decorative border carrying Low German dialect text in mirror-reversed script along the lower margin. The central panel presents a narrative vignette of a standing figure in peasant dress approaching a fallen man lying on the ground beside a barrel, set against a rural landscape with trees and open sky, rendered in fine line engraving. Flanking the central scene are two ornamental side panels, each bearing a boxed denomination tablet reading 50 PFENNIG with foliate guilloche surrounds, and vertical floral pilaster ornaments separating the panels. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELDSCHEIN GEMEINDE HUSBY 50 PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG DE SCHIT · NOTGELDSCHEIN · SO · GEI- HT · DE · RAHHANS ALLE · TID / UN · WENN · SEIN · STAH- EN · DENN · LIGGN · SEIN · DE |
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Husby is a small parish community in Schleswig-Holstein, in territory that had only just been assigned to Germany through the 1920 plebiscite following the post-WWI border settlement — the northern zone voted to join Denmark, the middle zone (where Husby sits) voted to remain German. Notgeld from this precise strip of contested borderland carries a political weight that purely German or purely Danish issues do not. The municipality was, in effect, newly confirmed as German when this note was printed.
Like most 1921 municipal Notgeld, this was issued as much for collector sales as genuine small-change relief — the acute coin shortage that justified early Notgeld had largely eased by then, and many municipalities were printing series specifically to generate revenue from collectors flooding the market that year.