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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lünen (City of Lünen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 98 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Pfennig Lünen a.d. Lippe Gültig für den Geldverkehr in der Stadt Lünen bis einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in der Lüner Zeitung. Für die Einlösung haftet die Stadt Lünen. Lünen, den 12. April 1921. Der Magistrat: Erster Bürgermeister. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and black on a white ground, dominated by a central circular vignette enclosed by a geometric meander border, containing an engraved image of a muscular industrial worker bent over a rail track wielding a tool, emblematic of Lünen's mining and metalworking heritage. The legend 'NOTGELD' arcs above and 'DER STADT LÜNEN' below within the border. Flanking the central medallion on both sides are vertical panels bearing the denomination '10 Pfennig' in bold numerals, above and below which are smaller rectangular vignettes of local architectural views, while heraldic red rampant lions on white shield cartouches appear in the upper outer corners, with gear-wheel ornaments at the cardinal points. |
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Lünen's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency money, by which point the practice had become almost commercially self-conscious — towns were producing attractive small notes partly to satisfy the collector market that had developed almost immediately around the first issues. E. Gundlach of Bielefeld was one of the busiest printers of Westphalian Notgeld during this period, handling runs for dozens of municipalities simultaneously.
The Reichsbank had never fully approved of local emergency currency but lacked the capacity to suppress it while inflation was accelerating.