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30 Pfennig
| Issuer | Langeneß-Nordmarsch, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | HALLIG LANGENESS-NORDMARSCH "Hev' wie Faske ün Porne, sü lehe wie nien Noud!" Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach Bekanntmachung in den "Husumer Nachrichten" Langeneß-Nordmarsch, 1. September 1921 Der Gemeindevorsteher Der Gemeindevorsteher |
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| Reverse lettering | Dartig-Penning 30 Pf |
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Langeneß-Nordmarsch is a Hallig — one of the tiny, storm-battered marsh islands off the North Frisian coast of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population that rarely exceeded a few hundred souls. That a community this small issued its own emergency currency in 1921 is less surprising than it sounds: the postwar Notgeld phenomenon swept through thousands of German municipalities, and remote island communities faced acute small-change shortages just as acutely as industrial cities.
The two-signature authorization by Bernsen and Andresen reflects the Gemeinde's own administrative apparatus signing off directly — no bank intermediary.