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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Keitum auf Sylt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 101 × 70.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour lithograph in red, green, and gray on cream paper, with a hand-drawn vignette of the Keitum Kliff coastal scene: a thatched cottage amid dense trees on a grassy promontory overlooking the tidal flats, signed 'Reus' at lower right. The denomination numeral '1 M' appears in a decorative cartouche at upper left in Gothic blackletter, with the issuer title in bold blackletter across the top. A text panel at the base states the validity clause dated 1. September 1921 and signed by the Gemeindevorstand, with the printer's imprint 'Friedrich Ball, Westerland-Sylt' in small type at the very bottom. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Keitum is a village on Sylt's quieter eastern shore, and its municipal notgeld reflects that remove from mainland financial infrastructure. When the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible in 1921, individual Gemeinden across Germany began issuing their own emergency notes — Keitum among them. Friedrich Ball operated locally in Westerland and handled both engraving and printing on the island itself, an unusual degree of vertical integration for a notgeld issue of this scale.
The watermarked paper gives it a security specification that many comparable village issues skipped entirely.