Catalog
50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Broacker (Municipality of Broager) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue and red on an olive-tan ground, centred on a panoramic silhouetted townscape of Broager viewed from across the water, with a church spire rising above the treeline. The bold red numeral "50 PF." at upper left and the place name "BROAGER" with the Roman-numeral date "MCMXIX" are each enclosed in cloud-shaped cartouches, while a Danish flag flies from a ship's mast at upper right — a direct allusion to the anticipated reunification with Denmark following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite. The Danish patriotic verse "DER · ER · ET · YNDIGT · LAND" runs along the lower border, underscoring the note's overtly pro-Danish character. |
| Reverse lettering | BROAGER MCMXIX 50 PF. DER · ER · ET · YNDIGT · LAND |
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Broacker — Broager in Danish — sits at the base of the Broagerland peninsula in what was then the Duchy of Schleswig, a region whose political status had been contested between Denmark and Germany since the 1864 war. This note was issued in 1919, the year a plebiscite was being organized under the Treaty of Versailles to determine whether northern Schleswig would return to Denmark. It did, in 1920. Bentzen's signature as Gemeindevorsteher — a German administrative title — reflects the municipality's position in the southern zone, which voted to remain German.
The Siegfried catalog reference SD#20 places this among the Schleswig-Holstein Serienscheine, emergency small-change notes produced during the postwar coin shortage. Southern Schleswig continued issuing such notes under German municipal authority through the transition period.