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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Ortsvertretung Nordseebad Büsum (Municipality of Büsum) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 97 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange and dark blue on cream paper, the note is framed by a geometric border of repeated square and scroll motifs with the denomination numeral '25' in each corner. The central field carries the heading 'Gutschien' in Gothic script at top, beneath which a handstamped circular vignette of a standing figure is overprinted alongside a typeset serial number prefixed 'No.' The denomination in Low German — 'Fief und twinti Penn' — is set in large bold Gothic type across the centre, with the redemption date 'Intolösen 31. 12. 21.' below. The issuing authority 'Nordseebad Büsum', issue date '1. Juli 1921', and authorization line 'De Ortsvertretung' appear in the lower field, with the printer's imprint 'Drückt bi W. Clausen in Büsum.' in the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschien No. Fief und twinti Penn Intolösen 31. 12. 21. Nordseebad Büsum 1. Juli 1921. De Ortsvertretung. Drückt bi W. Clausen in Büsum. |
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Büsum issued this 25 Pfennig Notgeld in 1921 as part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany following the postwar coin shortage. Unlike the elaborate collector-targeted Serienscheine produced by many German towns in the same period, Büsum's issue is a locally printed utilitarian piece — W. Clausen being a local printer rather than one of the specialist philatelic printing houses like Giesecke & Devrient that supplied more ambitious municipalities.
The handstamp serves as the primary authentication device, a common solution when engraved security printing was neither affordable nor necessary for low-denomination scrip expected to circulate only within the immediate community.