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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kirchspiel Aventoft |
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| 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. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green, red, and ochre on cream paper, with ornate scrollwork corner vignettes in green framing a central landscape scene. The vignette depicts the red-brick village church of Aventoft rising above a treeline against a pale sky, set in a broad green meadow, rendered in a painterly lithographic style with the printer's credit 'Nöbbe, Flensburg' visible at lower left of the image. Below the vignette, a two-line German verse in Gothic script reads 'In der Kirche hörst Du Gottes Wort / Es wär besser für Dich / Du wärst öfter dort.', with 'KIRCHSPIEL AVENTOFT' in large spaced capitals along the lower border and the denomination '75 PFENNIG' at centre bottom, followed by the printer's imprint '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.