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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Langenhorn (Municipality of Langenhorn in Nordfriesland) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on orange-buff paper in black and red letterpress. The upper portion carries the North Frisian motto 'LEWWER DÜAD ÜS SLAAV!' (Rather dead than slave) in bold arched lettering flanked by the year '19' and '21'. At centre, a large municipal coat of arms vignette in red — a crowned eagle on a quartered shield — is set between the large denomination numerals '50' and the abbreviation 'PF.' in red. The lower section bears the issuer legend 'DER GEMEINDE LANGENHORN' and the word 'GUTSCHEIN', with flanking redemption text and the expiry date '31·III·1922' above a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorst. The printer imprint 'GEBN.&KUNZE FLENSBURG' and designer credit 'ENTW: INGWER PAULSEN & HANS PHILIPP' appear at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | ICK · BEN · MAN · EJNE · HIIRE EN · LIWER · DÜAD · AS · SLAAV! 50p FÖFTI · PENNING |
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Langenhorn is a small parish in Nordfriesland, and its 1921 Notgeld issue is notable partly for its designers. Ingwer Paulsen was a local Frisian artist of some reputation, and his involvement in municipal emergency currency — rather than purely commercial or civic illustration work — was not uncommon in the early Weimar period, when hundreds of German municipalities commissioned artists to produce visually distinctive small-denomination scrip.
Gebh. & Kunze operated out of Flensburg, the dominant printing center for Schleswig-Holstein Notgeld issues in this period, serving many of the surrounding rural communes that lacked access to larger presses.