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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and gold on cream paper, with a decorative border incorporating regional vignettes at each corner — a pulpit, stacked books, a windmill, and a bear — alongside the town arms of Plön, Eutin, and Lütjenburg at the top. The denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" appears in large gold Gothic script across the upper centre, above a schematic map of the Holsteinische Schweiz region marking the towns of Plön, Lütjenburg, Malente-Gremsmühlen, Eutin, and Scharbeutz with their connecting routes. At the foot of the note, a banner carries the issuer's name in Gothic lettering. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown and gold on cream paper, centred on an oval vignette enclosed by a dotted border and scrollwork frame, presenting a landscape view of the Uglei-See near Malente-Gremsmühlen, with tall beech trees, a lakeside structure, and a boat on the water. The place name "Malente Gremsmühlen" appears in a gold panel at the top, flanked by the numeral "10" in ornate cartouches at each upper corner, while the denomination numerals "50" in bold gold appear at the lower left and right. Below the vignette, a framed four-line German verse in italic script describes the scene. |
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Plön is a small Schleswig-Holstein town best known for its ducal palace, not its monetary history. But like hundreds of German municipalities, commercial enterprises, and civic bodies in 1920, the local newspaper found itself in the position of issuing emergency money — Notgeld — to relieve a genuine coin shortage that had persisted since the war years. A regional newspaper acting as an issuing authority is not unique to Plön, but it remains one of the more administratively awkward arrangements of the Notgeld period.
The backing behind such notes was effectively nothing beyond local trust in the publisher.