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50 Pfennig Ost-Holsteinisches Tageblatt und Plöner Zeitung
| Issuer | Ost-Holsteinisches Tageblatt und Plöner Zeitung, Plön |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and black on cream paper in a decorative Jugendstil style, with a dark stippled border enclosing the central design. Three municipal coats of arms appear across the top, labelled Plön, Eutin, and Lütjenburg, beneath the regional banner inscription 'Holsteinische Schweiz'. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is rendered in large Gothic script across the upper centre, below which the text 'kostet dieser Schein' appears, and a schematic regional map vignette identifies the towns of Plön, Eutin, Lütjenburg, Malente-Gremsmühlen, and Scharbeut with connecting routes and stylised lake contours. The lower margin carries the issuer name in letterpress, flanked by small pictorial vignettes representing local landmarks including a boat and a sheaf. |
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| Obverse lettering | Plön Eutin Lütjenburg Holsteinische Schweiz Fünfzig Pfennig kostet dieser Schein Lütjenburg Plön Malente-Gremsmühlen Eutin Scharbeut Hantel Malente Gremsmühlen Ost-Holsteinisches Tageblatt und Plöner Zeitung Scharbeut |
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This is Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip issued by a regional newspaper publisher in Plön, a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, during the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years. The practice of newspapers and local businesses issuing their own fractional currency was briefly tolerated by the Reichsbank, and hundreds of towns did exactly this in 1920 and 1921.
That the issuer was a newspaper rather than a municipality or savings bank is unremarkable for the period — commercial firms of all kinds stepped in. What it does confirm is that the Ost-Holsteinisches Tageblatt und Plöner Zeitung was a going concern with enough local credibility that the public would accept its paper at face value.