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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Insel-Gemeinde Norderney (Island Municipality of Norderney) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 80 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette of a red-sailed traditional North Sea fishing vessel under full sail on choppy waters occupies the middle of the note, with a steamship visible in the background. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large white figures on dark rectangular panels at upper left and upper right, with the text 'Gutschein der Insel-Gemeinde' flanking the left panel and 'über zehn Pfennig' flanking the right. The issuer name 'Norderney' is set in bold Gothic blackletter script across the lower panel, flanked by two red diamond ornaments, with the printer's imprint 'George Kienitz, Braunschweig' in small type at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Reihe II Nr. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung bei der Gemeindekasse Norderney eingelöst wird. Der Gemeindevorstand Norderney, den 14. Mai 1920. |
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Norderney issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's defeat in 1918 — hoarding of metal coinage had stripped the country's circulation down to almost nothing, and island municipalities like Norderney were effectively cut off from whatever coin supply the mainland managed to distribute. The Kienitz printing house in Braunschweig produced Notgeld for numerous North German municipalities during this period, turning out small-denomination emergency issues on short runs.
Island Notgeld from this period is disproportionately scarce in genuinely circulated condition — tourist collecting drove many notes straight from the cashier's window into albums, uncirculated, which paradoxically makes worn examples the more historically honest survivors.