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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wittdün auf Amrum |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NORDSEEBAD WITTDÜN AUF AMRUM FÜNFZIG PFENNIG DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 1 MONAT NACH ERFOLGTER BEKANNTMACHUNG IM AMRUMER ANZEIGER Gemeindevorsteher Stellv. Gem.-Vorsteher Verordneten Verordneter J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSNOTGELD DER GEMEINDE WITTDÜN AUF AMRUM 50 PFENNIG WITTDÜN STIMMT DEUTSCH IN EINIGKEIT UND VERTRAUT MIT GOTT AUF BESSERE ZEIT 14. MÄRZ 1920. |
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Wittdün is the only settlement of any size on Amrum, a narrow North Frisian island in the Wadden Sea with a permanent population that barely exceeded a few hundred in 1920. The fact that the municipality issued its own Kleingeldersatz at all speaks to how thoroughly the postwar coin shortage had fractured everyday commerce — even communities this isolated were forced to print their own fractional substitutes when Reichsmünzen simply weren't reaching the periphery.
J. C. König & Ebhardt were a well-regarded Hannover printing house, but the distance between printer and issuer here is striking — the notes would have been ordered, printed on the mainland, and shipped across to an island accessible only by ferry.