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2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Keitum auf Sylt (Municipality of Keitum on Sylt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE KEITUM AUF SYLT Zwei Mark DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ÖF-FENTLICHER BEKANNTMACHUNG IN HIESIGEN ZEITUNGEN KEITUM 15.4.1920 GEMEINDEVORSTAND No |
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| Reverse lettering | UNSER RECHT IST KLAR WIE DIE SONNE UWE JENS LORNSEN LEVER DUAD ÜS SLAAV 2 M GUTSCHEIN KEITUM A. SYLT |
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Keitum was the oldest settlement on Sylt, and by 1920 the island's isolation — connected to the mainland only by ferry until the Hindenburgdamm causeway opened in 1927 — made small-denomination coin shortages genuinely acute. This is Notgeld in the strictest functional sense, not the decorative collector-targeted issues that flooded Germany in the same period.
Aug. Westphalen was a Flensburg printer active across the Schleswig region during the Notgeld years, producing municipal issues for several North Frisian communities. The designer credit to Holtz is atypical — most comparable small-town issues went uncredited.