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2 Marks
| Issuer | Gemeinde Nordseebad Wittdün |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and red on cream paper, with a decorative border carrying the patriotic inscription in Fraktur running along all four edges. A central octagonal panel with a red border contains an engraved vignette of Lügumkloster church in Schleswig, signed "W. Norbert", flanked on either side by the denomination "2 Mark" in large Gothic numerals above the text "Heil den unerlösten Brüdern" with three small crosses below. The printer's imprint appears at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Wittdün war deutsch in Einigkeit und hofft mit Gott auf bessere Zeiten zum deutschen Blut bekennt zum deutschen Gut bekennt Notgeld Notgeld 2 Mark 2 Mark LUGUMKLOSTER IM GERAUTEN SCHLESWIG Heil den unerlösten Brüdern Kupfertiefdruck von Broschek & Co., Hamburg. |
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Wittdün is a small resort town on the island of Amrum, off the Schleswig-Holstein coast, and this 2 Mark Notgeld piece was issued during the postwar inflationary period when municipal and community authorities across Germany routinely filled the void left by a collapsing Reichsmark coinage supply. Broschek & Co. of Hamburg were prolific printers of Notgeld for northern German municipalities during this period, producing competent regional work rather than the elaborate collector-targeted series that larger cities commissioned.
Designer credit to W. Norbert is unusual to see listed explicitly — most Broschek-printed community notes went uncredited.