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1 Mark
| Issuer | Kampen auf Sylt, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Deus |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with a decorative geometric border. A bold black banner across the top bears the denomination 'Eine Mark' in ornate Gothic script, flanked by stylised floral and foliate ornaments. The central white panel carries the voucher text in Gothic blackletter, with latticed black panels to either side; the series letter 'Deus' appears at lower left and the date '1921' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein für das Nordseebad: Dorfplatz in Kampen Eine Mark Kampen auf Sylt HARTUNG & Co. HAMBURG Deus |
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Kampen is a small village on the northwestern coast of Sylt, a North Frisian island in Schleswig-Holstein. Like dozens of German municipalities in 1921, it issued local emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the severe coin shortage that had been grinding on since the war. The series was printed by Hartung & Co. in Hamburg, a firm that handled considerable Notgeld work for North German municipalities during this period.
The designer credit "Deus" is unusual — likely a local artist rather than a commercial studio hand, which was not uncommon for Sylt-area issues where regional identity carried real weight in the artwork commissioned.