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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tinnum auf Sylt (Municipality of Tinnum) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Beige note with a dense black geometric guilloche border of interlocking floral and cross motifs enclosing a central white panel. The denomination "50" appears in large red Gothic numerals at the upper portion of the panel above "Fünfzig Pfennig" in bold red blackletter script, while the body text in smaller Gothic script carries the issuer name, validity clause, and date "1. April 1921"; the designer's name "Reus" is noted in the upper right corner of the central panel. Two manuscript signatures of the Gemeindevorstand appear at the foot of the panel alongside a serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Pfennig, Gutschein der Gemeinde Tinnum auf Sylt, Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung in hiesigen Zeitungen, Tinnum, den 1. April 1921, Der Gemeindevorstand, 17849 |
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Tinnum is one of the oldest settlements on Sylt, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 reflects the chronic small-change shortage that plagued German municipalities well into the early Weimar period, long after the armistice. Friedrich Ball operated as both printer and engraver out of Westerland — unusual for notgeld production, which more commonly relied on mainland commercial printers. The designer credit to "Reus" likely refers to a local or regional artist, though the name does not appear prominently in broader notgeld documentation.
Tinnum was absorbed into the municipality of Sylt-Ost in 1970, making this one of the few paper traces of its independent civic identity.