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50 Pfennig Møgeltønder, propaganda note
| Issuer | Møgeltønder, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and yellow with vignette elements in black, brown, and white; the denomination numeral 50 appears in each upper corner flanking a central inscription band. The central vignette presents a male allegorical figure holding a balance scale, with the German Imperial Eagle on one pan and voting papers on the other, alluding to the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite. A security serial number appears at the foot of the note, with the year indicated at right and the note type at left. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, red, and yellow; the denomination and year appear across the top. The central vignette presents the Golden Horns of Gallehus, the celebrated national treasures of Denmark, rendered as the dominant decorative motif. Parallel bilingual texts in German (left) and Danish (right) state the redemption conditions of the note, with signatures printed at the lower centre. |
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This note belongs to the Sonderjylland notgeld issues surrounding the 1920 plebiscite that determined whether the region would rejoin Denmark or remain part of Germany. Møgeltønder — a small parish in Zone A, which voted overwhelmingly for reunification — was among the Danish-sympathizing communities that produced local currency in the plebiscite period, and the notes from this area carry an unmistakable political charge beyond their face function as small-change substitutes.
The "propaganda note" designation is significant: these were not purely utilitarian emergency currency but instruments of Danish national sentiment, circulated at a moment when the outcome was still formally undecided.