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1 Mark Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Verkehrsverein Norddorf, Norddorf auf Amrum |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Nordseebad Norddorf auf Amrum Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dez. 1921. VERKEHRSVEREIN NORDDORF: DER VORSTAND HARTUNG & Co HAMBURG ARTHUR GÖTTING PREETZ |
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| Reverse lettering | Mark 1 Mark Norddorf. Friesen-Stube A.G. |
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Norddorf auf Amrum is among the smallest communities ever to issue notgeld — a North Frisian island village with a population that barely justified the effort. The Verkehrsverein, a local tourism and commerce association rather than any financial institution, commissioned this note during the height of the small-change crisis that pushed hundreds of German municipalities and private bodies into emergency currency production.
Arthur Götting of Preetz handled the design, a regional commercial artist whose work appears across several Schleswig-Holstein issues of the period. Hartung & Co. in Hamburg did the printing. Four varieties are catalogued under this reference, distinguished by minor typographic or color differences.