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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Uetersen (Municipality of Uetersen, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue notgeld printed in black on a guilloche underprint ground, with the issuer's name in Gothic script along the top border. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large bold type at left and right, with the word 'Pfennig' below each, flanking a central text block reading 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig' with the place and date. A circular vignette of the Uetersen town gate appears in the upper right corner, while a red circular official stamp bearing the municipal coat of arms is affixed to the lower left. A manuscript signature of the Magistrat official runs across the centre below the issuing authority line. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Uetersen. 50 Pfennig Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Uetersen, 1. April 1917. Der Magistrat. 50 Pfennig Gültig nur im Stadtbezirk Uetersen. (Translation: Municipality of Uetersen. 50 Pfennig Voucher for Fifty Pfennigs Uetersen, April 1, 1917. The Magistrate. 50 Pfennig Valid only in the Uetersen District.) |
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Uetersen's 1917 Kleingeldschein belongs to the first major wave of municipal emergency money that flooded northern Germany after the Imperial government failed to maintain adequate fractional coinage in circulation — wartime metal requisitions had effectively gutted the subsidiary currency supply by mid-1916. Hundreds of Prussian municipalities issued their own notes under loose central authorization, and Uetersen was among the smaller communities that did so, with a population then under 7,000.
Schleswig-Holstein issues from this period are modestly collected regionally but rarely attract serious specialist attention outside dedicated Notgeld collectors. Uetersen itself issued a broader series in 1918 with more elaborate artwork, making the plainer 1917 issues the less glamorous end of the town's output.