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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bilsen, Amtsbezirk Hemdingen (Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Yellow and black geometric grid border with black corner squares frames a central white vignette of a linden tree beside a well, rendered in fine line illustration. Denomination numerals '50' appear in ornamental cartouches at left and right within yellow side panels. Two lines of cursive German verse in Kurrent script run across the top and bottom yellow bands. |
| Reverse lettering | Am Brunnen vor dem Tore da steht ein Lindenbaum: Ich träumt in seinem Schatten so manchen süßen Traum |
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Bilsen was — and remains — a village of a few hundred people in the Holstein hinterland. Like hundreds of similarly tiny German municipalities, it entered the Notgeld market in 1921 not out of genuine monetary necessity but because the small-denomination paper craze had turned local scrip into a collectable commodity. Gemeinden issued series knowing full well that philatelists and collectors would absorb most of the print run without ever spending a note.
Konrad Hanf was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular distinction in the Notgeld trade — workmanlike output, nothing more.