50 Pfennig

Wittdün is the only settlement on the North Frisian island of Amrum, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the broader wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany during the coin shortage years following the First World War. Small resort towns along the Schleswig-Holstein coast were among the most enthusiastic issuers — partly from necessity, partly because the collector market for pictorial Notgeld had become a genuine revenue stream by 1921, with municipalities printing far more notes than local commerce required.

The DeNG 1/2 reference places this within the second catalog volume covering this period, suggesting a mid-series listing among the thousands of small-issuer types documented.