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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bordelum (Municipality of Bordelum) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Jngwer-Paulsen and Hans J. Philipp |
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| Reverse description | Light blue-grey note with a central rectangular vignette of a traditional North Frisian thatched farmstead surrounded by trees, printed in red-brown and olive tones. The denomination '75p' appears in large red characters at the upper left, while symmetrical red floral scroll borders frame both sides of the composition. Below the vignette a two-line German verse reads 'WO WESTWOGEN BRAUSEN, DA IST DER FRIESENSTRAND – / WO BÖSE WINDE SAUSEN, DA IST MEIN VATERLAND!', and the base of the note carries the North Frisian legend 'Fif·en·söbenti·Pen.' in large decorative red script. |
| Reverse lettering | 75p WO · WESTWOGEN · BRAUSEN, DA · IST · DER · FRIESENSTRAND – WO · BÖSE · WINDE · SAUSEN, DA IST MEIN · VATERLAND! Fif·en·söbenti·Pen. |
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Bordelum is a village in Nordfriesland, the strip of Schleswig-Holstein that had just been partitioned by plebiscite in 1920 — the northern zone voting to rejoin Denmark, the southern, including Bordelum, remaining German. The note was issued the following year, squarely within that raw political moment. Municipal notgeld from this area often carries a pointed local identity, and the Bordelum issue is no exception.
Gebh. & Kunze was a Flensburg lithography firm that handled a substantial volume of regional notgeld work during the early 1920s inflation period. The two-designer credit — Jngwer-Paulsen alongside Hans J. Philipp — is unusual for a village issue of this size.