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2 Mark

Issuer Gemeinde Nordseebad Wittdün (Municipality of Wittdün, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein)
Year 1921
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Value 2 Marks
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Obverse description Black letterpress on cream paper within a bold zigzag-pattern border. A central circular vignette contains an eagle perched on a rocky crag above a crouching figure, enclosed within a wreath-like frame. The denomination '2 M' appears in ornate script flanked by decorative cartouches at left and right. The upper legend in Gothic Fraktur script reads 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Nordseebad Wittdün'; below the vignette, four facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear alongside their titles, with a serial number in a central panel and validity and publication clauses in Gothic text at the foot.
Obverse lettering Gutschein der Gemeinde Nordseebad Wittdün
2 M
Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit erfolgte Bekanntmachung
Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach im Nummern Anzeiger
Gem. Vorsteher Stellvtr. Gem. Vorst. Verordneter Verordneter
Reverse description Printed in black and red on cream paper, with a bold zigzag outer border and a red rectangular inner frame enclosing an octagonal panel. The central vignette is a detailed line-art view of the Strasbourg Minster (Strassburger Münster), labelled in a small banner beneath the spire. The denomination '2 Mark' and the word 'Notgeld' appear twice each in large Gothic type at upper left and right, with the legend 'Heil den unerlösten Brüdern' across the lower portion. Patriotic inscriptions in Gothic Fraktur run along all four outer margins, with the bottom margin text printed inverted; the printer's imprint 'Kupfertiefdruck von Broschek & Co., Hamburg.' appears below the lower border.
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