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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Norderdithmarschen (District of Norderdithmarschen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 20 Pfennigs (20 Pfennige) (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER-SCHEIN TRÄGT-DIE 20 PF. NR. GUTSCHEIN DES-KREISES-NORDERDITHMARSCHEN ER-VERLIERT-SEINE-GÜLTIGKEIT--WENN-ER NICHT-BINNEN-DREI-MONATEN-NACH-ERFOLG-TER-AUFFORDERUNG-IM-KREISBLATT-ZUR-EINLÖ-SUNG-VORGELEGT-WIRD--DIESELBE-GESCHIEHT AN-SÄMTL.-KASSEN-DER-WESTHOLST-BANK.- DER-VORSITZENDE-DES-KREISAUSSCHUSSES = |
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| Reverse lettering | KREIS-NORDERDITHMARSCHEN 20 DRUCK DES DITHMARSCHEN-VERLAG (J. HAACK) BÜSUM. |
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Norderdithmarschen was one of hundreds of German administrative districts forced to issue emergency small-denomination notes during the Kleingeldnot of the early Weimar years — a coin shortage so acute that local authorities, businesses, and municipalities flooded circulation with Notgeld to fill the gap. This particular piece comes from Büsum, a small North Sea coastal town, and was both printed and issued within the same district, which was not always the case with regional Notgeld.
The printer, Dithmarschen-Verlag under J. Haack, was a local publishing house rather than a specialist security printer — a detail that matters when assessing paper consistency and ink registration across surviving examples.