50 Pfennig

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.