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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Municipality of Hasloh (Amtsbezirk Pinneberg, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress note on cream paper with a bold geometric Art Deco underprint of radiating zigzag and diagonal bands framing the design. At centre, a large diamond-shaped white cartouche carries the denomination numeral '50' with the abbreviation 'Pf' in elegant script. Two circular rosette ornaments flank the central cartouche at mid-height, while a diagonal text band carries the validity clause in cursive script; two facsimile signature lines with printed role designations appear at the lower portion, accompanied by a red stamped serial number. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf "MAN SIEHT DICH AN UND FÜHLT SO- GLEICH SICH BETTELARM UND FÜRSTENREICH!" |
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Hasloh is a village — genuinely a village, not even a small town — in the Pinneberg district northwest of Hamburg. That such a settlement issued its own emergency currency during the Weimar-era Notgeld period is itself the point: between 1914 and the early 1920s, the German state's inability to maintain small-denomination coin circulation pushed the obligation of monetary improvisation down to the municipal level, reaching even communities with populations in the hundreds.
Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer, not a security printing house, which is typical of smaller Schleswig-Holstein issues in this series.