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50 Pfennigs

Issuer Gemeinde Süderbrarup (Municipality of Süderbrarup)
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Type Local banknote
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Obverse description Blue-grey guilloche underprint with a diamond lattice pattern and gold star rosettes at corners. Central oval vignette on orange ground shows the Düppel Monument (Düppel Denkmal), a tall neo-Gothic memorial tower. Denomination numerals "50 PF." appear in circular cartouches at left and right, with issuer name on a ribbon banner below the vignette.
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Reverse lettering Wir wollen keine Dänen sein
Wir wollen Deutsche bleiben
Erstürmung der Düppeler Schanzen
Gültig bis zur einmonatlichen Kündigung in der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landpost Süderbrarup
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Süderbrarup is a small market town in Schleswig, and like hundreds of German municipalities it turned to Notgeld during the acute coin shortages of 1917–1921. These small-denomination emergency notes were a purely local solution — accepted by shopkeepers within the issuing community but worthless a few kilometers away. The 50 Pfennig value is the single most common denomination across the entire Notgeld phenomenon, produced by virtually every town, parish, and cooperative that participated.

Nothing in the available data distinguishes this particular issue from the broader run of Schleswig municipal Notgeld. Without confirmed print dates or series letters, little more can be said with confidence.

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