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½ Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Lübeck |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with circular coin-motif underprint overall. A bold double-headed eagle vignette occupies the centre, clutching a red shield inscribed '½ Mark'. Issuer title 'STADTKASSE LÜBECK' and validity clause appear above; issue date and serial number with two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse lettering | i findt hir fromde geste und timmern hoege veste und wundert dat wy nicht muren dar wy ewichliken ge= dunken to duren ASMUS JESSEN |
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Lübeck's Stadtkasse issued this half-mark notgeld in 1921, when the city was still operating under the peculiar administrative status it had held since 1866 — a free city within the German Reich, with its own Senate and fiscal institutions. The denomination is telling: half a mark was nearly worthless by late Weimar standards, and most municipal notgeld of this type had a circulation life measured in weeks before inflation rendered it irrelevant.
Joh. Moll R.-G. was a local Lübeck printer, not a specialist security firm, which is characteristic of the smaller notgeld issues produced entirely within the issuing municipality.