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75 Pfennig

Issuer Kirchspiel Aventoft
Year 1921
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Currency Mark (1914-1924)
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Obverse lettering + Kirchspiel Aventoft +
75 PFENNIG
Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am
1. Mai 1922.
Aventoft, den 31. Okt. 1921.
der Kirchenvorstand.
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Reverse lettering KIRCHSPIEL AVENTOFT
75 PFENNIG
In der Kirche hörst Du Gottes Wort /
Es wär besser für Dich / Du wärst öfter dort.
Aug. Westphalen, Flensburg.
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Aventoft is the smallest municipality in Germany — a handful of farms straddling the Danish border in Schleswig, with a population that has rarely exceeded two hundred. That a parish of this size issued its own emergency currency is a direct consequence of the post-WWI Notgeld phenomenon, when the Weimar-era coin shortage forced even the most marginal administrative units to print scrip locally rather than wait for central supply.

Aug. Westphalen was a Flensburg commercial printer, not a security press. The border location matters: Schleswig's political status was still being contested by plebiscite in 1920, and Aventoft fell on the German side by a narrow margin.

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