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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Oland (Hallig Oland) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a letterpress scene of the Hallig Oland waterfront, with a wooden pier and moored rowing boat in the foreground, and farmhouses with outbuildings set along the low shoreline beneath a clouded sky. Decorative side panels in red and green carry bold seahorse motifs in orange, with the denomination numeral '20' in red squares at the upper corners and 'PF.' in matching squares at the lower corners. Two columns of Low German dialect verse are printed in black letterpress below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 PF. Datt hirr iss Giel voon uss lltj' Löhn, Datt kunn Jamm ock will arken sien. Datt kammt vohn uss, kammt utt uss Höhn, Brieng Jamm datt wie, lies wie datt len. Wirr meh? Datt weh wie ock noo eh; Uss Kaff' iss leeg, Giel hew wie eh. Skinn wie Jamm reede, wohr datt app! Denn estert ward datt no olicht knapp. |
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Hallig Oland is one of the smallest permanently inhabited islands in the North Frisian Wadden Sea — a tidal flat settlement so remote and so small that its entire population in the early 1920s numbered in the dozens. That this community issued its own notgeld is not as surprising as it sounds: the 1920–1922 notgeld wave swept through thousands of German municipalities, and Oland participated like many other places seeking both local liquidity and philatelic revenue from collectors hungry for novelty issues.
The DeNG reference placing this within a numbered series suggests at least five distinct varieties were catalogued for this denomination.