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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Hallig Oland |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1013.1-3/5 |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Hallig Oland zahlt für diesen Schein 75 Pfg. für die Dauer seiner Gültigkeit, welche mit dem 1. Mai 1922 erlischt. Hallig Oland, den 22. August 1921. Der Gemeindevorsteher: 75 PF. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Hallimoon die iss eh trong, Stohnt fast ien Wien een Weer. Gongt datt ock enns watt skiw enn krumm, Hie skaftet nien Kalöhr. 75 PF. |
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Hallig Oland is one of the smallest permanently inhabited islands in the Wadden Sea — a tidal flat islet in the North Frisian archipelago with a population that rarely exceeded a few dozen. That this community issued its own Notgeld at all is the remarkable fact here. The German municipal emergency currency program of 1920–1922 swept up thousands of issuers, but few were as geographically marginal as Oland.
The DeNG reference covers three to five known varieties, suggesting the municipality issued across multiple design or print runs — unusual for an issuer this small, and likely driven by collector demand rather than any genuine local circulation need.