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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lüben (City of Lüben, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT LÜBEN · PFENNIG · 1 |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT LÜBEN · PFENNIG · 1 |
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Lüben's 1 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the smallest denomination class of the German emergency money wave that peaked between 1919 and 1921, when chronic coin shortages — driven by wartime metal requisitions and postwar hoarding — forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own fractional currency. A 20×20mm paper square was about as small as a circulating note ever got, and handling losses were significant; many examples were simply lost or destroyed in pockets and purses rather than formally withdrawn.
The DeNG reference places this within the documented Lüben municipal series, a Silesian town that would later pass to Poland as Lubin following World War II.