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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Halstenbek, Municipality of |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black and bright green on white paper, the reverse is framed by a black border with decorative corner elements. The series designation 'No. 4' and thematic title 'PFLEGE DER KULTUREN' appear along the upper edge, above a large central vignette rendered in an expressionist woodcut style showing rows of young tree seedlings in a nursery field with female workers tending the plants using long-handled tools. The denomination numeral '50' is printed in green at the upper left and right corners, and a curved cartouche at the foot of the note contains a four-line verse in gothic script beginning 'Pfleget den Wald! Er ist des Wohlstands sichere Quelle'. |
| Reverse lettering | No. 4 PFLEGE DER KULTUREN 50 50 Pfleget den Wald! Er ist des Wohlstands sichere Quelle, Schnell verhert ihn die Axt; langsam nur wächst er heran. All' unser Schaffen und Tun: Die Enkel werden es richten, Sorgen mit Fleiß wir zur Zeit, dass sie uns rühmen dereinst |
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Halstenbek is a small municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German towns it issued Kleingeldscheine during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These local emergency notes — Notgeld — were a practical stopgap, not a monetary policy decision, filling the gap left by hoarded metal coinage. Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer responsible for a significant volume of northern German municipal Notgeld, working in the same city that served as the regional hub for such contracts.
The series is well-documented but unremarkable within the broader Notgeld corpus.