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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Norderdithmarschen (District of Norderdithmarschen) |
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| Reverse description | Striking Expressionist vignette printed in bold black ink with red ray-burst underprint lines radiating from the upper-centre background. A dramatically rendered sailing vessel is tossed amid stylized, heavily swirling waves rendered in a woodcut-like graphic style; the composition fills nearly the entire note face. The issuer's name 'KREIS-NORDERDITHMARSCHEN' appears in a ruled panel at the top, with the denomination numeral '20' at upper right, and the printer's imprint runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | KREIS-NORDERDITHMARSCHEN 20 DRUCK DES DITHMARSCHEN-VERLAG (J.HAACK) BÜSUM. |
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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.