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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | City of Friedrichstadt (Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 45 x 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper ground bearing a single blue circular municipal seal stamp. The seal encloses a crowned heraldic shield displaying the numeral '50' at centre, flanked by radiating wing-like devices. The legend runs around the outer ring, separated by small ornamental stops. |
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| Obverse lettering | SIEGEL DER STADT 50 PF FRIEDRICHSTADT (Translation: SEAL OF THE CITY 50 PF FRIEDRICHSTADT) |
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Friedrichstadt — founded in 1621 by Dutch Remonstrant refugees and still visibly Dutch in its canal layout — issued this square note during the notgeld period that followed Germany's post-WWI economic dislocation. The 45 x 45 mm format is genuinely unusual; square notgeld are among the less common physical variants from this era, and the town's print runs were small enough that attrition has done real work on surviving numbers.
Schleswig-Holstein's political status was itself unsettled in 1920 — the province was subject to a plebiscite that year determining the Danish-German border, which adds an odd administrative wrinkle to any local currency issued at that exact moment.