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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Lübeck |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTKASSE · LÜBECK GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 LÜBECK DEN 1. MAI 1921 JOH MOLL. K.-G. LÜBECK. (Translation: City Treasury Lübeck / Valid until 31 December 1921 / Lübeck, 1 May 1921) |
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| Reverse lettering | Rekene und schrifft dat verhöt dij mennigen kiff. Nº Y 50 Pf. ASMUS JESSEN (Translation: Reckon and write, that saves you many a quarrel.) |
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Lübeck's Stadtkasse issued this Notgeld fractional during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI inflation spiral — municipal treasuries across the country were deputized into producing their own currency simply because the Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand for low-denomination notes. Lübeck, with its long history as a free city and Hanseatic trading hub, had both the civic infrastructure and the local print capacity to do it properly.
Joh. Moll K.G. was a well-established Lübeck commercial printer, and designer Asmus Jessen was a local figure — the note reflects genuine civic investment rather than the rushed, generic output that characterized lesser municipal issues of the same period.