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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Lübbecke (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1/2 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Lübbecke 1/2 Mark Lübbecke, den 14. Mai 1920 Der Magistrat: Gruppe A |
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| Reverse lettering | Laßt kein Geld unnütz im Hause liegen. Städtische Sparkasse Lübbecke i.W. (im Rathause). Mündelsichere Bankanstalt. Ausführung aller bankgeschäftlichen Aufträge. Einlösung von Schecks, Wechseln, Zinsscheinen u. dergl. Geldüberweisungen nach all Plätzen d In- u. Auslandes. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgtem öffentlichen Aufruf. Vermögen vermehren ! Reichebank-Girokonto Minden. Sparkassenkonto Hannover Nr. 8046 Bei der Sparkasse ist es |
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Lübbecke is a small Westphalian town, and its 1920 Notgeld issues came directly out of the post-war small-change famine that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency fractions. The Magistrat — the town's governing body — authorized these under the signatures of Pütz and Bläse, local officials whose names appear on virtually no other numismatic material anywhere.
Paper half-mark pieces from minor municipalities were discarded at high rates once the Reichsbank restabilized small-coin supplies. Lübbecke's issues were never produced in the large decorative print runs that the Serienscheine collectors' market later generated — these were functional scrip, printed plainly and used hard.