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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hohenwestedt, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Erinnerungsschein an den Tag der Einweihung des "Ehrenmals des Kirchspiels Hohenwestedt" HOHENWESTEDT, 3. JULI 1921 50 PFENNIG |
| Reverse description | Olive-green reverse with a sepia photographic vignette of men assembled before a partially constructed war memorial. Denomination '50 PFENNIG' appears upper left; names of surrounding villages border all four edges within the ochre frame. |
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Hohenwestedt is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in the early 1920s it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that followed the First World War. The reference suffix "1c" typically indicates a printing variant within the series, suggesting at least minor differences across impressions of the same face value.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog or data error — that date falls at the absolute end of the Third Reich, when municipal Notgeld of the 1921 type had been obsolete for over two decades.