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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wittdün (Nordseebad Wittdün, Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Broschek & Co., Hamburg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette portrays a full-length armoured knight in plate mail, standing upright and holding a long lance, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a dark ground. The denomination '1 Mark' appears twice in elaborate Fraktur script flanking the vignette on decorative banner panels, while the issuing authority legend is divided across the upper left ('Gutschein der Gemeinde') and upper right ('Nordseebad Wittdün') in large Gothic blackletter. The lower portion carries four manuscript facsimile signatures above their printed titles — Gemeindevorsteher, Stellv. Gem. Vorsteher, and two Verordneter — alongside a validity clause and the serial number, all within a multi-rule decorative border with corner ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Nordseebad Wittdün 1 Mark Gemeindevorsteher Stellv. Gem. Vorsteher Verordneter Verordneter Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung im Amrumer Anzeiger |
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Wittdün is a small seaside resort on the island of Amrum, and this 1 Mark Gemeindeschein was issued during the acute coin shortage that plagued German municipalities in the early 1920s — a period when even tiny Baltic and North Sea resort communities printed their own emergency currency rather than wait for centrally minted coinage that never arrived reliably. Broschek & Co. in Hamburg handled a considerable volume of such local Notgeld work during this period, which partly explains the relatively polished production quality for a note of such limited intended circulation.
The designer credit to W. Norbert is worth noting — named designers on municipal Notgeld are less common than anonymous trade print runs.