10 Pfennig

Lübbecke is a small town in the Minden-Lübbecke district of Westphalia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1920, it issued Kleingeldscheine to address the severe small-denomination coin shortage that plagued the early Weimar Republic. The national mint simply could not keep pace with demand, and local authorities — cities, towns, even individual businesses — filled the gap with their own emergency paper. Lübbecke's issue is entirely unremarkable in that administrative sense.

What gives these municipal Westphalian notes residual interest is the chronic hoarding problem: many were withdrawn quickly once Reichsbank subsidiary coin supplies normalized in 1921–22, meaning short-issue runs survived in quantity while longer-circulating examples were often pulped.