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50 Pfennig
| Uitgever | Heydekrug, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1921 |
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| Drukker | Erasmusdruck, Berlin, Germany |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Gutschein der Gemeinde Heydekrug (Memelgebiet) FÜNFZIG Pfennig Heydekrug, den 28. Mai 1921 Der Gemeindevorstand: Ungültig 3 Monate nach Abruf. HERMANN SUDERMANN ERASMUSDRUCK BERLIN S. 42 |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is arranged in a triptych layout: two flanking vertical panels carry dark guilloche underprints with floral sprigs and circular denomination medallions reading 50 / Pf. in blue. The central panel is dominated by a colour vignette of a low thatched farmhouse amid trees — captioned DAS ELTERNHAUS DES DICHTERS — above a green guilloche field bearing an eight-line verse in Gothic script, signed in facsimile by Hermann Sudermann. The outer border replicates the triangular guilloche frame of the obverse, with matching blue corner studs. |
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Heydekrug — now Šilutė in Lithuania — was a predominantly German-speaking market town in the Memel Territory, a region detached from Germany under the Treaty of Versailles and placed under French administration in January 1920. This Notgeld issue dates to 1921, when the territory's political status remained unresolved and the local municipality was still functioning under its German administrative apparatus, less than two years before Lithuanian irregulars seized the region in January 1923.
The watermarked paper is notable for small-denomination emergency currency of this type — most municipal Notgeld from this period dispensed with security features entirely. Erasmusdruck in Berlin handled a substantial volume of Notgeld printing during the early 1920s inflation period.