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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Broacker (Municipality of Broager) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Olive-tan note printed in Gothic and Fraktur scripts, with a shield-shaped vignette at left enclosing the Imperial German eagle flanked by the dates 1864 and 1919, referencing the region's dual historical allegiance. The issuer name "Gemeinde Broacker" is set at the head in Gothic lettering, beneath which the denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" appears in bold Fraktur over a large pale underprint numeral "50". A facsimile signature of Gemeindevorsteher Bentzen is printed below the denomination, with the serial number presented within a ruled box at the foot of the note. |
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| Signature(s) | Bentzen (Gemeindevorsteher) |
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Broacker — Broager in Danish — sits at the base of the Broagerland peninsula in what was then the Duchy of Schleswig, a region whose political status had been contested between Denmark and Germany since the 1864 war. This note was issued in 1919, the year a plebiscite was being organized under the Treaty of Versailles to determine whether northern Schleswig would return to Denmark. It did, in 1920. Bentzen's signature as Gemeindevorsteher — a German administrative title — reflects the municipality's position in the southern zone, which voted to remain German.
The Siegfried catalog reference SD#20 places this among the Schleswig-Holstein Serienscheine, emergency small-change notes produced during the postwar coin shortage. Southern Schleswig continued issuing such notes under German municipal authority through the transition period.