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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Norderdithmarschen (District of Norderdithmarschen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed entirely in black letterpress, with a bold hand-lettered typeface throughout. The denomination '20' appears in large numerals at upper centre within a stylized arch motif, followed by 'PF.' and the word 'GUTSCHEIN' below; the issuer's name 'DES KREISES NORDERDITHMARSCHEN' runs across the centre in capital letters. A serial number box with hatched underprint is positioned at upper right, a red 'DITH' control mark appears at left, and a multi-line redemption clause occupies the lower two-thirds of the face, concluding with a facsimile signature of the chairman of the district committee ('DER VORSITZENDE DES KREISAUSSCHUSSES'). |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER SCHEIN TRAGT DIE 20 PF. GUTSCHEIN DES KREISES NORDERDITHMARSCHEN ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT -- WENN ER NICHT BINNEN DREI MONATEN NACH ERFOLGTER AUFFORDERUNG IM KREISBLATT ZUR EINLOSUNG VORGELEGT WIRD -- DIESELBE GESCHIEHT AN SAMTL. KASSEN DER WESTHOLST. BANK. DER VORSITZENDE DES KREISAUSSCHUSSES DITH NR. |
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Norderdithmarschen is the northern half of the old Dithmarschen region on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein — a district that, like hundreds of German administrative bodies, found itself scrambling for small-denomination emergency notes (Kleingeldscheine) after metal coinage disappeared from circulation during the First World War. The Reichsbank and imperial treasury never adequately replaced it, leaving Kreise, municipalities, and even individual businesses to fill the gap themselves.
Printing locally through Dithmarschen Verlag in Büsum kept costs low and turnaround fast. Büsum was a small fishing and resort town — not an obvious center of printing — which is precisely why notes from this issuer turn up in far fewer collections than Notgeld from larger regional hubs.