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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Albersdorf in Holstein |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#9.1 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a full-colour vignette of an ancient Germanic sacrificial altar — a large megalithic stone monument — set amidst a wooded landscape rendered in green, brown, and black letterpress. The denomination numeral '50' appears in red in each upper corner within narrow vertical panels bordered by oak-leaf ornament. A caption in italic script below the vignette identifies the monument, and the lower margin repeats the issuer legend 'Notgeld Bad Albersdorf' on a red banner in bold Gothic lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. Altgermanischer Opferaltar Notgeld Bad Albersdorf |
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Albersdorf is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it turned to notgeld in the early 1920s as Germany's postwar inflation made small-denomination Reichsmark coinage effectively disappear from daily commerce. The Louis Koch printing house in Halberstadt was a minor but active regional supplier to this market — not one of the prestige notgeld printers, which kept production costs down for issuing authorities working with thin municipal budgets.
The watermark security feature is worth noting: many comparable small-municipality issues of this period skipped it entirely, making its inclusion here slightly unusual for a 50 Pfennig piece at this level of issuer.