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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wittdün (Municipality of Wittdün, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 104 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Nordsebad Wittdün 50 Pfennig Gem. Vorsteher Stellvtr. Gem. Vorst. Verordneter Verordneter Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung im Amrumer Anzeiger |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld 50 Pf. WITTDÜN Wittdün war deutsch in Ewigkeit und hofft mit Gott auf bessere Zeiten zum deutschen Sinne bekannt Kupfertiefdrück von Broschek & Co., Hamburg |
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Wittdün is a small resort town on the island of Amrum, off the North Frisian coast — an improbable issuer of emergency currency by any measure. This note belongs to the vast wave of German Kleingeldscheine issued between 1918 and 1922, when chronic coin shortages following the First World War forced even minor municipalities to print their own small-denomination scrip. Broschek & Co. of Hamburg handled a significant volume of such regional commissions during this period.
The designer credit to W. Norbert is uncommon enough to note — most Notgeld of this type was printed from stock or near-stock layouts with minimal individual attribution.