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2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Morsum auf Sylt (Municipality of Morsum on Sylt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0900.2a |
| Obverse description | Tan-toned note with a double-ruled border frame. The upper portion carries the issuer legend in bold Fraktur blackletter type in two lines, with the denomination 'Zwei Mark' in large red Fraktur script below. A central vignette in a lozenge-shaped frame depicts a fish, flanked on the left by the validity clause text and on the right by the serial number and redemption notice. A lower vignette illustrates a rural village scene with a church steeple, farmhouses, and trees, enclosed in a diamond cartouche. The date 'MORSUM 21.2.1921' and the manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorstand appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large, finely executed vignette of the dramatic chalk cliffs of Sylt with breaking surf in the foreground and storeys of rock rising steeply to the right under a stormy sky with birds in flight. The issuer title 'GUTSCHEIN MORSUM a/SYLT' and denomination '2 Mark' in red Fraktur appear across the upper portion. A lower text panel carries a two-line verse in the North Frisian dialect of Sylt. A heraldic shield in the lower right corner displays a crown, a winged griffin, and a pot in quartered arrangement. |
| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN MORSUM a/SYLT 2 Mark Pöti di ek twesk Brening en Ref: Wan jat jam slaa, staanst dü beeter üp Klef. |
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