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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Auenbüll (Municipality of Auenbüll) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency currency) with bold Gothic lettering GUTSCHEIN at top within a decorative cross-and-dot border. Three vignette panels: left shows a red wax seal stamped with numeral 14 above the legend DIE 14 PUNKTE; centre bears the denomination 50 Pf. on yellow underprint with municipality name and Gemeindevorstehr signature below; right reproduces a postage stamp vignette with a lion coat of arms inscribed PLEBISCIT and SLESVIG 15. |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG PFENNIG Köm saa da 50 Verliert 4 Wochen nach in "Flensborg Avis" erfolgender Aufforderung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit 8. 6. 20. Gültigkeit verloren. |
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Auenbüll is a village in Schleswig-Holstein — an area that in early 1920 was subject to the plebiscites under the Versailles Treaty determining whether the region would remain German or transfer to Denmark. The political uncertainty, combined with the chronic small-change shortage that plagued postwar Germany, drove hundreds of municipalities to issue their own emergency paper: Notgeld. Auenbüll was one of the smallest communities to do so.
The denomination suggests everyday transactional use — trams, bread, small trade — rather than any ceremonial or collector-targeted issuance, though by 1921 the Notgeld market had become self-consciously philatelic nearly everywhere.