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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Heiligenhafen (City of Heiligenhafen) |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1923 |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld on plain paper with a decorative foliate border enclosing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Heiligenhafen — a shield bearing a stepped-gabled townscape above wavy water lines, flanked by two flagpoles and surmounted by a star — is centrally placed, with the large numeral '50' and the inscription 'PFENNIG' repeated symmetrically to its left and right. Below, two text panels state the redemption terms at the Stadtkasse and territorial validity, with a manuscript facsimile signature for the Magistrat; the printer's imprint of Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover, appears along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNS OLE KIRCH SÜHT MAN HIER STAHN WAT STEIHT SE SEKER DOR DE DÜLLSTE STORM KANN EHR NICHTS DAHN UND OLD IS SE BALD DUSEND JOHR HIERNEBEN: EPITAPHIUM VON MORITZ HARTMANN 50 PFENNIG |
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Heiligenhafen is a small Baltic fishing town on the Wagrian peninsula — an unlikely issuer of emergency currency, but the postwar Pfennig shortage of 1918–1921 pulled in municipalities far smaller than this one. The Jänecke brothers in Hannover were among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, supplying dozens of north German towns with ready-made or semi-customized designs on short runs.
The DeNG reference grouping (.1-2/3) indicates at least two distinct varieties under this type — likely differentiated by date, signature, or minor typographic variation rather than a fundamental redesign.