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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schnelsen (Com. Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) |
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| Size | 76 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Schnelsen (Com. Amtsbezirk Pinneberg) 50 ℳ Dieser Schein verliert 2 Wochen nach Aufruf im Lokal Anzeiger Stellingen-Langenfelde seine Gültigkeit Der Com. Amtsvorsteher: Der Finanzausschuss: |
| Reverse description | Blue-toned note with a large central oval vignette enclosed within a decorative foliate border, containing a detailed view of a traditional North German farmhouse or manor building set amid trees. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each of the four corners in plain type. Below the vignette, a four-line verse in cursive Gothic script occupies the lower register, with the poet's name printed in small text at the lower right. |
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Schnelsen was a small rural community in the Amt Pinneberg district of Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to locally-issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward. These parish-level issues were authorised under wartime emergency provisions, but the practical oversight was minimal — the Gemeinde essentially printed what it needed and redeemed it locally.
Schnelsen was absorbed into Hamburg in 1937 as part of the Greater Hamburg Act, which makes this note a relic of a municipality that no longer exists in any administrative sense.