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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Hadersleben |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Tan-ochre notgeld issued on plain paper, printed in dark brown letterpress throughout. The face is framed by a decorative border composed of interlaced geometric and foliate guilloche panels at the corners and sides. The large denomination numeral '50' appears at centre top, followed by the word 'Pfennig' in bold gothic script, with the redemption text and the word 'Gutschein' in a larger display typeface below. The issuing authority 'Der Magistrat der Stadt Hadersleben' is printed in a flowing script at the lower centre, accompanied by a manuscript signature beneath. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the serial number and additional redemption conditions in letterpress, set within a plain typographic layout without decorative vignette. The city seal inscription and the validity clause are printed in standard roman type, with the serial reference and date flanking the central seal legend. |
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Hadersleben — now Haderslev, Denmark — was a predominantly Danish-speaking town inside the German Empire's contested Schleswig region. This note was issued in 1918, the final year of the war, when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation across Germany. Hundreds of municipalities issued their own Kleingeldersatz, and Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a significant share of that local emergency printing work.
The town's status changed dramatically the following year: the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite returned the northern zone to Denmark, rendering these notes obsolete almost immediately after issue.