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50 Pfennigs St. Magnus
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Magnus |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Konrad Hanf, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE ST. MAGNUS 50 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIG- KEIT AM 31. JANUAR 1922 ST. MAGNUS, DEN 9. NOVEMBER 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTEHER KONRAD HANF, HAMBURG 8 |
| Reverse description | The back presents a panoramic landscape vignette in fine letterpress line work, centred on a view of the Lesum river with reed-covered foreground banks, a calm expanse of water, and a wooded village skyline in the middle distance, captioned as the 'Bremer Schweiz' district. The same blue-green diamond-and-lozenge ornamental border as on the face frames the composition along the left and right edges. Bold block lettering above and below the vignette carries the issuing authority inscription. |
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St. Magnus is a small community on the northern outskirts of Bremen, and this 50-Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld issued in the early 1920s as small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted in sufficient quantities to meet everyday demand. Thousands of German towns and villages issued their own emergency notes during this period, and the Konrad Hanf printing firm in Hamburg produced a significant share of the northern German municipal issues.