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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Lüneburg (Magistrat der Stadt Lüneburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green notgeld printed on plain paper. The upper portion bears the Gothic-script legend 'Gutschein der Stadt Lüneburg' above a central vignette composed of two ornate octagonal cartouches flanking a horizontal band, all set against a dark background, with the denomination numeral '10' in white in each cartouche and '·Pfennig·' across the centre band. Below, a framed text panel in Gothic script states the redemption conditions and bears the issuing authority legend 'Der Magistrat der Stadt Lüneburg' with a manuscript signature beneath. The printer's imprint 'DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER.' appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Lüneburg 10 · Pfennig · 10 Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats bei der Kämmereikasse eingelöst wird. Bis dahin kann die Einlösung jederzeit erfolgen. Der Magistrat der Stadt Lüneburg. DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER. |
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Lüneburg's 1920 Notgeld issue came at the peak of Germany's municipal emergency currency wave, when the post-war coin shortage forced hundreds of town councils to commission their own small-denomination scrip. The city contracted Gebrüder Jänecke of Hannover — a firm better known for its printing ink manufacturing than banknote production — which partly explains the somewhat commercial graphic character of the series compared to notes printed by specialist security printers.
Heinz König's involvement places this among the more deliberately designed pieces in the Lüneburg set. The city's rich salt-trade history made it a natural subject for pictorial Notgeld, and collectors pursued these regional issues aggressively even at the time of issue — a known problem that inflated print runs and blurred the line between emergency currency and philatelic merchandise.