Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
50 Pfennigs
| Uitgever | City of Westerland, Sylt (Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1921 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Gurskin aur Fif Groschen. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung in hies. Zeitungen. Anno 1921. Bürgermeister. Ratmann. |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Central polychrome vignette of a lifeboat crew battling heavy surf, a stricken sailing vessel visible in the left background; denomination '50 PF.' repeated in red corner cartouches. 'WESTERLAND/SYLT.' inscribed across the top in grey block letters, with the caption 'RETTUNG AUS SEENOT.' below the vignette. Frisian dialect verses printed vertically in the left and right margins. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
Westerland's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the decorative phase of German emergency money — the period after 1920 when municipalities discovered collectors would pay face value for attractive small notes, effectively providing interest-free loans to cash-strapped local governments. Sylt's geographic isolation as a North Frisian island made small-denomination coinage genuinely scarce, giving the issue practical justification beyond the philatelic market.
Printed locally by Carl Meyer rather than one of the large specialist houses, the production values reflect a small-town press working at the limits of its equipment.