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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tinnum auf Sylt (Municipality of Tinnum on Sylt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Reus |
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| Reverse description | Cream-coloured note printed in black, olive-green, and red-orange within a solid black border; the central vignette, rendered in an expressionist line-art style, illustrates a crowd assembled at the foot of the Thinghügel (Thing mound) on Sylt during the 1920 plebiscite, with a figure gesturing from the summit against a streaked red-orange sky. A Frisian-language verse in Gothic script occupies the upper left, while the denomination numeral "1 Mark" appears in a floral rosette at upper right. The full issuer title in large Gothic lettering and a descriptive caption line run along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Faaderlön's-Lefhair bigent, frinj, it üüs: Wet en gur dütšben wiis, wiis en gur Friis die Thinghügel als Kundgebungsstätte während der Abstimmung Gutschein der Gemeinde Tinnum auf Sylt 1 Mark FRIEDRICH BALL WESTERLAND-SYLT |
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Tinnum was one of several distinct municipalities on Sylt before the island's communities were consolidated — it issued this note independently during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar inflation years. Gemeinde Notgeld of this type was a purely local solution, valid only within the issuing community and frequently redeemed within weeks or months, which is why so many were kept as novelties rather than spent.
Friedrich Ball was Westerland's local printer, not a specialist Notgeld house, and his handling of both engraving credits is unusual for such a small issue.