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½ Goldmark
| Issuer | Kreis Norderdithmarschen (Kreiskommunalkasse) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 85 x 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark green letterpress text on cream paper within a decorative border of fine ruled lines and floral corner ornaments. The heading 'Wertbeständiges Notgeld des Kreises Norderdithmarschen' appears at the top, followed by an authorization line referencing the Reichsminister der Finanzen, with the denomination 'Eine halbe Goldmark' in large display type at centre. The lower portion carries a detailed redemption clause, the place and date 'Heide, den 12. November 1923', and two manuscript signatures above the printed titles 'Landrat' and 'Kreisdeputierter'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green on a cream ground bearing a fine geometric guilloche underprint of interlocking circular rosettes in pale orange-pink. A circular stamp inscription 'KREIS NORDER-DITHMARSCHEN' surrounds the central denomination legend 'Eine halbe Goldmark' in bold Gothic script. A series letter 'D' in red appears at upper left, with a red serial number prefixed 'No' at upper right. An anti-counterfeiting warning in Gothic type occupies the lower portion within the same ruled and floral-corner border as the obverse. |
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Kreis Norderdithmarschen was one of dozens of German administrative districts forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not supply adequate legal tender fast enough for daily transactions. This Kreiskommunalkasse — the district communal treasury — issued fractional Goldmark notes as Germany was attempting to stabilize its currency by anchoring new denominations to gold values, a transitional measure that made sub-unit notes briefly necessary before the Rentenmark reform took hold in November 1923.
Printed locally in Heide, the district capital of Norderdithmarschen, rather than by any of the established security printers. The shelf life of these notes was measured in weeks.