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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kirchengemeinde Stockelsdorf |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark two-color letterpress design on light blue-grey paper, dominated by two stylized angel figures in Expressionist woodcut style flanking a central rectangular cartouche bearing the denomination numeral '50' and letters 'PF'. At the lower margin, the issuer inscription 'KIRCHENGEMEINDE STOCKELSDORF' is set in bold spaced lettering within a black panel, with the redemption date appearing in the bottom border. The designer's name 'GRÖNING' is inscribed below the central cartouche. |
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| Obverse lettering | KIRCHENGEMEINDE STOCKELSDORF 50 PF EINLÖSBAR BIS 15. DEZEMBER 1921 GRÖNING |
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Kirchengemeinde Stockelsdorf — a Lutheran parish in Schleswig-Holstein — was among the hundreds of German ecclesiastical and municipal bodies that issued Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage of the early 1920s. A church congregation issuing emergency currency is unusual enough to warrant attention; the legal basis was thin, and these notes circulated on little more than local trust.
The designer credit to Gröning is uncommon specificity for parish-level Notgeld, where artistic attribution was rarely documented.