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2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Langeneß-Nordmarsch |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse lettering | HILLIGENLEI-HALLIG LANGENESS 2 M. Jesus segne Du das Eiland, Führe Du es in Dein Reich, Gib dem Volke Deinen Geist, Halte Wacht in aller Not, Halt es fest bei Dir, o Heiland, Gib ihm auch das täglich Brot. |
| Signature(s) | C. Bransen and H. Andresen |
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Langeneß and Nordmarsch are two of the Halligen — the tiny, storm-battered tidal islands in the North Frisian Wadden Sea off the Schleswig-Holstein coast. These micro-communities issued their own Notgeld not out of administrative ambition but simple necessity: the postwar coin shortage reached even here, and the mainland was not reliably supplying small change to islands that flooded regularly and had populations numbered in the hundreds.
The joint municipal issuer is the curiosity. Langeneß and Nordmarsch functioned as a single Gemeinde for administrative purposes despite being physically separate islands, which is why both names appear on the note together. The DeNG reference suffix indicates this is one of six known variants in the series.