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50 Øre
| Issuer | Municipality of Augustenborg (County of Sønderborg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress. The municipal coat of arms of Augustenborg — two blue lions passant on an orange field — occupies the left vignette, with a vertical panel of four national flags (Danish, British, Norwegian, Swedish) to the right. The denomination '50 Øre' appears twice flanking the word 'PLEBISCIT' in the right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUD-UND-OS-ALE-PAA-DENE-Ø-ERLIG-AT-LEVE-SALIG-AT-DØ 10. Febr. 1920. ANNO 1676 50 Øre 50 Øre |
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Augustenborg issued this note in 1921, two years after the post-WWI plebiscite that returned northern Schleswig to Denmark. The municipality-level emergency currency — Notgeld in practice if not in name — filled a genuine gap during the monetary transition period, when Danish krone circulation in the newly reintegrated zone was still uneven. H. O. Persiehl in Hamburg was a prolific printer of municipal fractional notes across northern Germany in this period, which makes it mildly ironic that a newly Danish commune was still contracting across the border.
The design credit to both Jens Raben and Agnes Jürgensen is unusual — collaborative attribution on small municipal issues is rarely documented this precisely.