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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Lage (City Treasury of Lage in Lippe) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Lage i. L. die Stadtkasse löst diesen Gutschein ein — Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung Nr. Lage, im Febr. 1921 der Magistrat. Gutschein für Pfennige 10 |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-colour vignette in a vigorous folk-art illustrative style, signed 'C. Supan Detmold' in the lower left corner, showing a bricklayer in working dress — open-collar white shirt, blue trousers, and a red cap — carrying a stack of bricks against an industrial background with a tall chimney stack, a cart wheel, and scattered brickwork. The denomination '10 Pf' is printed in red in the upper left of the central vignette. A dotted black border frames the composition, with the city name 'Stadt Lage i. L.' inscribed in bold Gothic lettering across the lower margin, and a regional motto in Gothic script along the upper border. |
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Lage is a small town in the Lippe district, and its Stadtkasse issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period — a crisis severe enough that hundreds of municipalities, businesses, and even individual shops printed their own Kleingeldersatz. C. Supan was a local Detmold printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which is exactly the point: this kind of notgeld was never meant to be art, just functional paper to move commerce along when coinage had all but vanished from daily trade.
The DeNG reference places it firmly within the documented Lippe municipal issues, but Lage's output was small, and Supan's local production run almost certainly numbered in the low thousands.