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50 Pfennig Ferienkolonie Vogelkoje
| Issuer | Ferienkolonie Vogelkoje, Kampen auf Sylt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Ferienkolonie 50 Pf. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Bekanntgabe in der "Sylter Zeitung". Ferienkolonie "Vogelkoje" 1. Oktober 1921 Der Vorstand "Vogelkoje" auf Sylt. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sleit di de See däl op de Rügg Denn hol di fast, güss swemmst du trüch 50 Pf H. HECKER Hartung & Co. Hamburg |
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Vogelkoje Kampen was a children's holiday colony on Sylt's northwest coast, established to give urban working-class youth time on the North Sea. The 50 Pfennig note was issued in 1921 as internal scrip — functional currency within the colony's grounds during the inflationary years when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from everyday use. This was common practice among German institutions of all kinds in the early 1920s, but a holiday children's colony issuing its own notgeld is a distinctly unusual issuing authority even by Weimar-era standards.
Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a considerable volume of provincial notgeld work during this period. The watermark security feature is notable given the modest scale of the issuer.