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50 Pfennig Landesbürgerrat Schleswig-Holstein
| Issuer | Landesbürgerrat Schleswig-Holstein |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 1 March 1922 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set on a salmon-red underprint composed of repeated text fragments arranged as an all-over letterpress pattern filling the entire field. A dark blue outer border frames the note, enclosing the central denomination numeral '50 Pf.' in bold typeface above the word 'ANWEISUNG', followed by a three-line payment instruction text directing the Bank für Handel und Gewerbe, Altona to pay the bearer. The issuer's name 'Landesbürgerrat Schleswig-Holstein', place and date 'Altona-Elbe, 15. Febr. 1922', and the title 'Der Geschäftsführer' with a manuscript signature appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a richly coloured Art Nouveau vignette in warm ochre, red, and green tones, divided into three vertical panels by ornamental borders with a teal dashed outer frame. The central panel carries a large red disc behind two allegorical female figures — a seated figure holding a cornucopia and a standing draped figure — framed by classical columns and an arched banner inscription. Flanking panels each carry the denomination '50 Pf.' above a decorative guilloche band and a heraldic shield: to the left the green lion of Schleswig on yellow, signed 'Holtz' at lower left; to the right the Schleswig-Holstein sun motif on red. |
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The Landesbürgerrat Schleswig-Holstein was a civilian administrative council established in the wake of the 1920 plebiscite that divided the former duchy between Denmark and Germany. This 50 Pfennig note was issued during the severe inflationary pressure of 1922, well before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923 made such small-denomination emergency issues economically irrelevant almost overnight.
Holtz is credited as designer, though documentation on this individual remains sparse in the notgeld literature. DeNG 2#29 places it within a short series; surviving examples in undamaged condition are less common than the print run might suggest, as small-denomination paper from this period was used hard and discarded.