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50 Pfennig Rinkenis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rinkenis (Municipality of Rinkenis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries a black letterpress vignette of a commemorative stone stele set beneath a large weeping willow tree, inscribed in Danish with a verse referencing the first shot fired by warriors on 6 April 1849; a caption banner above reads 'Første Skud fra Krigers Skare 1848' and a lower caption reads 'Seier vandt hvor "Seier" døde 1920'. The right half presents the denomination text 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold Gothic script over a circular red guilloche underprint, with the issuing authority 'Gemeinde Rinkenis' below and a manuscript signature above the title 'Gemeindevorsteher'. At the foot of the note, a redemption clause states the note loses validity four weeks after a call for redemption published in the 'Flensburg Avis'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Første Skud fra Krigers Skare 1848 Minde om den 6. April 1849 Første Skud fra Krigerskare Voldte Byen Skræk og Fare Men med Tak og Pris og Hæder Broderlig vi mindes Eider Som for os i første Møde Seier vandt hvor "Seier" døde Seier vandt hvor "Seier" døde 1920 Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Gemeinde Rinkenis Gemeindevorsteher Verliert 4 Wochen nach in "Flensburg Avis" erfolgender Aufforderung zur Einlösung seine Gültigkeit. |
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Rinkenis — today the Danish village of Rinkenæs — issued this note in 1920, the same year the Schleswig plebiscites divided the duchy between Denmark and Germany. The municipality sat in the southern zone, which voted to remain German, and local Notgeld like this filled the severe small-change shortage of the early Weimar period before Reichsbank-issued coinage stabilized supply.
Gemeinde-level Notgeld from border zone communities in 1920 is disproportionately scarce; many issuing authorities were dissolved or reorganized in the administrative reshuffling that followed the plebiscite results.