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50 Pfennig Winzeldorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Winzeldorf |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Cream note with an oval cartouche in brown and blue, bearing the Gothic-script legend 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE WINZELDORF' and large denomination numeral '50 PF' in orange at centre. A serial number appears at right, flanked by two manuscript signatures below the titles 'DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS' and 'DER GEMEINDEVORST.' Outer border of blue guilloche wave pattern with orange scalloped frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit zwei Wochen nach Aufruf im Pinneberger Tageblatt und Lockstedter Anzeiger NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE WINZELDORF 50 PF DER FINANZAUSSCHUSS DER GEMEINDEVORST. |
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Winzeldorf is a small community in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld issued during the postwar inflation years when small change had entirely vanished from everyday commerce. Konrad Hanf of Hamburg was a prolific regional printer of such material, supplying dozens of northern German towns and parishes with emergency fractions — the sheer volume of his output for minor municipalities means attribution is usually reliable from typographic fingerprints alone.
Like most 1921 Gemeinde issues, this was likely printed in very short runs and withdrawn once Reichsbank coin supplies stabilized later that year.