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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Landkirchen auf Fehmarn, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1/2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream ground with a yellow border strip framing the entire note. The place name "Landkirchen auf Fehmarn" is set in bold blackletter type at centre, with the denomination "1/2 Mark" printed in large red and black Gothic script below. At top, the secondary denomination "50 Pfennig 50" appears in red letterpress. The lower portion carries a multi-line redemption clause in cursive script, followed by the issuing authority line "Der Gemeindevorstand:" and a manuscript signature with a six-digit serial number at bottom left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Marien-Leuchte in der Kirche hat im Jahre 1420 während der Verwüstung der Insel durch den Dänenkönig Erich Blut geschwitzt. Landkirchen auf Fehmarn 50 Pfennig J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover |
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Fehmarn is a Baltic island that remained administratively isolated enough during the Notgeld period that individual municipalities — not just the island authority as a whole — issued their own emergency small change. Landkirchen, the island's oldest settlement and its historical administrative seat, was one of them. J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover were a reliable commercial printer used by dozens of northern German municipalities for exactly this kind of low-denomination paper substitute when coin circulation collapsed after 1914.
The DeNG reference places this firmly in the documented series, but Landkirchen issues are scarce relative to larger Schleswig-Holstein towns — the municipality's small population meant correspondingly small print runs.