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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Plön |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Plön 50 Pfennig Verfallstag 4 Wochen nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung Ausgabe 1921 der Magistrat der Stadtverordnetenkollegium Plöener Stadtwappen 1236 |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Plön 50 Pfg. 2 Kruto, ein Tyrann und Christenverfolger, schliest mit den Wenden die Stadt ein zwingt Buthue un seine Mannen zur Übergabe und läset sie, obwohl ihnen Leben und Unverletztheil zugesagt war, umbringen. Der Wendenkrieg in Plon 1074-1139 |
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Plön is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and its municipal authority — the Magistrat — issued this note as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept German towns between 1919 and 1922. The chronic coin shortage following the First World War forced local governments, businesses, and even private associations to print their own small-denomination emergency money. Municipal issues like this one were theoretically redeemable at the issuing office, though in practice many towns retired their Notgeld under pressure from the Reichsbank, which was increasingly hostile to the proliferation of local scrip.
Plön's series was printed locally, a common arrangement for smaller municipalities that lacked the budget or connections for outside printers. Local print runs often show inconsistent ink saturation across surviving examples.