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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Prisdorf (Municipality of Prisdorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-grey note printed in dark brown ink with a letterpress vignette centered on the large numeral '50' flanked by oak branch sprigs and framed by stylized fir trees at each side. To the left, a postal horn underprint appears in pale cream, while a crescent moon and shooting star occupy the upper corners. The lower portion carries a two-line validity clause in Fraktur script, with two manuscript signatures below attributed to the Finanzausschuss and the Amtsvorsteher respectively, and the printer's imprint 'KONRAD HANF HAMBURG 8.' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG Gutschein der Gemeinde Prisdorf |
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Prisdorf is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is precisely the kind of hyperlocal emergency scrip that proliferated across Germany as postwar coin shortages made even small-denomination currency functionally unavailable. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own Kleingeldersatz during this period, and the overwhelming majority used Hamburg-based firms — Konrad Hanf among them — to fulfill orders quickly and cheaply.
What distinguishes Prisdorf's issue catalogued here is its rarity relative to the larger town issues from the same region. Small-population communes printed short runs, and redemption drives in the mid-1920s eliminated most of what circulated.