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| Issuer | Stadt Elmshorn (City of Elmshorn, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Expressionist woodcut-style vignette in orange and grey showing grasping hands reaching for scattered coins against a textured ground. The city name ELMSHORN appears in bold Gothic lettering across the top, flanked by the denomination 50 Pf in each corner. A framed text panel at lower centre bears the issuing authority and date, with a facsimile signature below. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pf Elmshorn Die Stadt für Notgeld Elmshorn, November 1921 Der Magistrat |
| Reverse description | Vibrant multicolour vignette in an Expressionist illustrative style, portraying stylised figures — including a Chinese merchant, an African trader, and a fur-clad Siberian — gathered around a heap of gold coins and trade goods. A Low German verse runs in Gothic script along the upper border, alluding to barter currencies across Africa, Siberia, and China. The denomination appears in large octagonal cartouches at lower left and right. |
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