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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bilsen, Amtsbezirk Hemdingen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow and black Notgeld issued in letterpress. The upper portion carries a calligraphic scrollwork border enclosing the large numeral '50' flanked by the abbreviated denomination 'Pf' on either side. A central yellow cartouche bears the issuer inscription in bold Gothic lettering, below which the validity expiry clause is set in smaller type. Two manuscript signatures appear above the serial number, with the printer's imprint at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow and black design divided into a geometric grid with solid black corner squares and yellow lateral panels, each bearing the denomination numeral '50' within an ornamental scroll cartouche. The central white vignette presents a line-drawn pastoral scene of an embracing couple in a meadow beside a slender sapling. A decorative yellow foliate flourish occupies the lower panel, while a cursive verse in German script runs across the upper yellow band. |
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Bilsen was a small rural commune in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in the early Weimar period, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-change shortages that followed the war. The Amtsbezirk Hemdingen administrative grouping gave these notes a slightly broader local authority than a single village issue, though circulation would have been extremely limited geographically.
Konrad Hanf of Hamburg handled a significant volume of municipal Notgeld printing for northern German communities during this period, producing competent if unspectacular work across dozens of small issuers. The DeNG 1/2#105.1 reference places this within a catalogued series, suggesting at least one variant exists.