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25 Pfennig Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Verkehrsverein Norddorf, Norddorf auf Amrum |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels on a tan and brown ground. The left panel bears a letterpress vignette of a woman in traditional Frisian dress rendered in fine cross-hatching. The central panel carries the place name in Gothic blackletter script above the validity notice and issuing authority inscription. The right panel displays the polychrome municipal coat of arms of Norddorf with a ribbon motto, flanked by the large blue denomination numeral '25' in the lower portion; denomination numerals in red appear at the upper corners of the outer panels. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set within a decorative border of repeating blue and red denomination numerals and Gothic 'Pfennig' lettering on a tan ground. The central vignette presents a landscape view of the Norddorf sand dunes rendered in warm ochre and brown tones with detailed line-work depicting marram grass in the foreground; the caption 'Norddorf. Dünen' appears at the lower left of the vignette. Frisian-language inscriptions in red Gothic blackletter run along the top and bottom margins, with the artist's monogram 'AG' at the lower right of the vignette. |
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Norddorf is the smallest of the three villages on Amrum, a narrow North Frisian island whose total population in 1921 numbered only a few hundred. That a local Verkehrsverein — a tourism and civic promotion association — would issue its own emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds: the post-WWI Notgeld wave swept through thousands of German municipalities, and island communities with limited access to Reichsbank coin supplies had particular practical incentive. Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a significant volume of such regional Notgeld commissions during this period.
Arthur Götting of Preetz designed the note — a Schleswig-Holstein printmaker working the Notgeld circuit at a moment when that was viable commercial work.