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100 Pfennig Kleinsiedlung Nordmark
| Issuer | Kleinsiedlung Nordmark, Husum |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 March 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 HUSUM 100 GEIHT EN IN'T RATHUS RIN AS OHLE BRUT / KUMMT SE AS JUNGE FRU HERUT DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 31.3.1922. HUSUM DEN 15.9.1921. Nº DER VORSTAND DER KLEINSIEDLUNG BÜRGERMEISTER: NORDMARK ARCHITEKT: |
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| Reverse lettering | DOCH GRÄSIG GOD SÜND SE / VON HART/ 100 PF. 100 PF. ·HUSUM· Max Böttcher |
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Kleinsiedlung Nordmark was a cooperative housing settlement on the outskirts of Husum, and this 100 Pfennig note belongs to the wave of privately issued Notgeld that flooded northern Germany during the hyperinflationary pressures of 1921. Settlements, municipalities, and businesses issued their own emergency scrip because official coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply insufficient for daily transactions.
Max Böttcher's design credit is unusual for Notgeld of this type; most settlement-issued scrip used anonymous commercial printers with stock vignettes. Local designer attribution suggests a degree of civic investment in the piece that goes beyond pure utility.