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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glücksburg (City of Glücksburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 97 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Warm ochre underprint of stylised fleur-de-lis and diamond lozenges covers the entire field. At the top, the large numeral '50' in red is surmounted by the denomination 'PFENNIG' in black letterpress. A central decorative scroll cartouche bears the inscription 'ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DEN ABZUG DER INTERNATIONALEN COMMISSION', flanking a red-printed heraldic shield vignette. Below, a six-line text block identifies the issuer and validity conditions, concluding with the date 'GLÜCKSBURG · 17 · 6 · 1920 ·', and the lower margin carries a serial number in blue and a manuscript Bürgermeister signature above the legend 'BÜRGERMEISTER · I · V.' |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DEN ABZUG DER INTERNATIONALEN COMMISSION NOTGELD DER STADT GLÜCKSBURG DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTLICHER BEKANNTMACHUNG IN DEN FLENSBURGER NACHRICHTEN GLÜCKSBURG · 17 · 6 · 1920 · Nº BÜRGERMEISTER · I · V. |
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Glücksburg, a small ducal residence town on the Flensburg Fjord, issued this Notgeld at a moment of genuine political instability — the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite had just divided the region between Germany and Denmark, and the acute coin shortage that drove emergency paper issues across Germany hit border communities like this one particularly hard. The municipality turned to Gebr. & Kunze in nearby Flensburg rather than a national printer, a practical choice given the disruption to normal commercial channels in the postwar north.
Designer E. Nöbse was a local Flensburg hand, and the commission reflects how much of the Schleswig Notgeld wave was produced and designed entirely within the region.