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50 Pfennig Propaganda Note
| Issuer | Municipality of Møgeltønder (County of Tønder) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 114 x 77 mm |
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| Reverse description | Blue, red, and yellow letterpress print. The denomination and year appear at the top, centred; the main vignette presents the Golden Horns of Gallehus, a celebrated Danish national treasure. Parallel bilingual texts in German (left column) and Danish (right column) state the note's conditions of validity, with a municipal authorisation signature line at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf 1920 50 Pf GUTSCHEIN FÜR MÖGEL- TONDERN DIESER SCHEIN VER- WERT SEINE GÜLTIG- KEIT 1 MON. NACH ERFOLG- TER BEKANNTMACHUNG. PENGESEDDEL FOR MØGEL- TØNDER DENNE SEDDEL MI- STER SIN GYLDIGHED 1 MAANED EFTER OFFENT- LIG BEKENDTGØRELSE. GEM. VORST |
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This note was issued during the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite period, when Danish and German administrations were both circulating emergency currency across the contested border zone. Møgeltønder — a small village in the southern zone — was firmly German-leaning territory, and some local Notgeld issues from this region carried explicitly political messaging designed to influence or reflect sentiment ahead of the vote. Whether this specific piece qualifies as genuine propaganda in the strict sense or simply reflects German nationalist municipal pride is debated among collectors of Abstimmungszeit material.
Zone 2 voted to remain German on April 14, 1920. Møgeltønder stayed in Germany until the post-WWI border adjustment brought Zone 1 into Denmark.