20 Pfennig

Langeneß-Nordmarsch is a Hallig — one of the tiny, storm-battered tidal islets off the North Frisian coast of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred souls in 1921. That a community this small issued its own emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds: the German Kleingeldschein and Notgeld wave of 1920–1922 reached even the most remote municipalities, driven by a nationwide coin shortage and chronic small-denomination scarcity in the postwar inflation spiral.

J. Nägele was a Stuttgart-based printer responsible for a considerable volume of municipal Notgeld across southern and northern Germany during this period. The dual signatures of Lemnzen and Andresen likely represent the local administrative authority countersigning on behalf of the Hallig's governing body.