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50 Pfennig Bargteheide, Gauturnfest
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bargteheide |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 September 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUT- 50 SCHEIN FÜNFZIG PFENNIG GÜLTIG BIS ZUM 1. SEPT. 1921. DEUTSCHE MACHT UND KRAFT, IST GEIST UND TURNERSCHAFT GAUTURN- FEST IN BARGTEHEIDE DIESER SCHEIN IST GÜLTIG IN ALLEN BARGTEHEIDER RESTAURANTS, KAFFEES, U. SONSTIGEN GESCHÄFTS-LOKALITÄTEN. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT WENN ER NICHT BIS ZUM 1.9.21. ZUR EINLÖSUNG VORGELEGT WIRD. DEN UMTAUSCH VERMITTELT D. SPARK. BARGTEHEIDE STEHST DU AUF EINEM BERG, BIST DU DER RIESE, ALLES ANDERE IST ZWERG. Johann Hinrich Meyer, Hamburg |
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Bargteheide is a small town in Holstein, and this 1921 Pfennig note was issued specifically to facilitate a Gauturnfest — a regional gymnastics festival — rather than as ordinary municipal emergency currency. These event-tied Notgeld issues were common during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar period, when local organizers found it easier to print their own scrip than rely on increasingly scarce small-denomination Reichsmark coinage.
Johann Hinrich Meyer was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular distinction in intaglio work, and the production here reflects that.