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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtverordnetenkollegium Burg auf Fehmarn |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Giltig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis auf Widerruf, dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung im Fehmarnschen Tageblatt bei der Stadtkasse eingelöst wird Burg auf Fehmarn Das Stadtverordnetenkollegium |
| Reverse description | A full-bleed multicolour vignette in blue, green, and ochre renders a panoramic rural landscape of the island of Fehmarn. In the foreground, a wooden plough rests on dark, freshly turned earth; the middle ground opens into broad green agricultural fields, and the distant skyline silhouettes the church steeple and rooftops of Burg auf Fehmarn beneath a warm golden-orange sky. The scene is executed in a stipple and woodcut-influenced printmaking style with no additional text or border ornamentation. |
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Fehmarn, a Baltic island connected to the Schleswig-Holstein mainland, issued its own small-denomination emergency paper during the notgeld wave that followed Germany's postwar currency collapse. The Stadtverordnetenkollegium — the town council body of Burg, the island's principal town — was among thousands of municipal authorities that stepped in when coins vanished from circulation after 1918, hoarded by a public with no faith in the official monetary system.
J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover printed an enormous volume of notgeld for municipalities across northern Germany during this period, making attribution of the specific press run straightforward. Fehmarn was later connected to the mainland by the Fehmarnsund Bridge in 1963.