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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Halstenbek, Municipality of |
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| Printer | Konrad Hanf, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned notgeld note printed in black and red, framed by a bold red rectangular border. The gothic legend 'HALSTENBEK' in large bold type occupies the upper register, preceded by 'Notgeld der Gemeinde' in script and followed by the sub-legend '(COM. AMTSBEZIRK PINNEBERG)'. A central circular vignette presents a stylised tree on a grassy mound, with the denomination '(50) Pfg.' in large numerals flanking either side and a red-stamped serial number below; two manuscript signatures beneath the printed titles 'DER COM. AMTSVORSTEHER:' and 'DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS:' authorise the note in the lower portion, which also carries a gothic-script validity clause referencing the Pinneberger Tagblatt and Lockstedter Anzeiger. |
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| 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.