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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Lübbecke (City of Lübbecke) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gustav Heynke (Kanne & Kühne), Detmold, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a multicolour letterpress style with bold black borders and red accent rules. At centre, within an octagonal gold-dotted frame, a colour vignette presents a tall round medieval stone tower set against a blue sky with white clouds and flanked by conifers. The denomination numeral '1' appears in red within yellow diamond cartouches at left and right, with scrollwork underprint filling the lateral panels, and the issuing authority text in Gothic script occupies the upper and lower black bands. |
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| Obverse lettering | Westfalenlied Vers 3. Gutschein der Stadt Lübbecke i.W. 1 Mark Die Städtische Sparkasse löst diesen Schein ein. Ungültig einen Monat nach Aufruf. Lübbecke Der Magistrat: Nº 018608 Juli 1921 Gustav Heynke (Kanne & Kühne), Detmold. |
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Lübbecke is a small town in the Teutoburg Forest region of Westphalia, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage — that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. These Notgeld issues proliferated so rapidly that collectors were already chasing them as a hobby while they were still nominally in circulation, which led many towns to produce deliberately decorative series aimed squarely at the collector market rather than everyday commerce.
Gustav Heynke, operating under the Kanne & Kühne imprint in Detmold, was a regional printer who handled Notgeld commissions for several Westphalian localities during this period.