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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Thesdorf (Municipality of Thesdorf) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note produced by blue and ochre multicolour letterpress, enclosed within a blue ruled border over a fine horizontal-line underprint. The issuer's name 'Thesdorf' is divided across the left and right fields in large ochre Fraktur script, flanking a central blue panel bearing the bold numeral '50' above the abbreviation 'Pfg.'; the heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde' runs across the top in black Fraktur, with 'Com. Amtsbez.' and 'Pinneberg' inscribed in a dark band beneath the central panel. The lower portion carries a validity clause in small Fraktur text, two manuscript signatures below the designations 'Der Finanzausschuss I.A.' and 'Der Com. Amtsvorsteher', and the printer's imprint 'Konrad Hanf · Hamburg 8' at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Cream-toned note in blue and ochre letterpress, framed by a blue ruled border with ornamental corner cartouches in blue and ochre. A central dark-blue vignette shows two rural figures in traditional dress engaged in agricultural labour — one wielding a flail, the other holding a rake or scythe — set against a stylised field background, with 'Notgeld' in Fraktur above the scene; the denomination '50 Pfg.' is repeated in bold black numerals within ochre rectangular panels to the left and right of the vignette. Below, the issuing authority 'Gemeinde Thesdorf (com. Amtsbez. Pinneberg)' is inscribed in Fraktur. |
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Thesdorf is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own emergency paper during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change famine — that gripped Germany in the early 1920s as metal coinage vanished from circulation. These Gemeinde-level notgeld issues were printed in enormous variety by regional printers filling a very practical void, and Konrad Hanf in Hamburg handled a number of such local commissions from surrounding communities.
Municipal issues at this scale were often printed in short runs and redeemed quickly, which makes surviving examples deceptively scarce relative to the better-known city series.