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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Norderney (Municipality of Norderney) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Lime-green notgeld with a central woodcut-style vignette of a coastal dune landscape, showing a sandy path, beach cabins, and a large conifer beside a chalk cliff under a blue-tinted sky; the artist's initials 'P.F.' appear in the lower left of the vignette. The bold denomination numeral '50' is set in letterpress at both upper corners, each flanked by 'Pfennig' in vertical orientation. A darker green lower panel carries the issuer name 'Norderney' in large Gothic script above the motto 'das Paradies der Nordsee', framed by decorative diamond cartouches. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned reverse enclosed within a scalloped typographic border, printed entirely in grey letterpress. The series designation 'Reihe III Nr.' with a printed serial number appears at the top within a wavy-line underprint panel, followed by the redemption clause in German Fraktur script. The issuing authority line 'Der Gemeindevorstand', place and date 'Norderney, den 23. Mai 1921.', and the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature occupy the lower portion, with the printer's imprint 'GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, DRUCK- u. VERLAGSHAUS, HANNOVER.' typeset at the foot. |
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Norderney is one of the East Frisian Islands, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, the Gemeindekasse resorted to issuing its own emergency money — Notgeld — as the postwar coin shortage made ordinary transactions impossible. The Reichsbank simply could not keep small denominations in circulation fast enough. Gebrüder Jänecke of Hannover was a well-established printing and publishing house that produced Notgeld for numerous Lower Saxon municipalities during this period, so the work is competent if not distinctive.
The single signature, Berghaus, is that of the municipal cashier authorizing the issue. Reference DeNG 1/2#984.2 identifies this as the second type within the Norderney series.