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10 Pfennig Volksbank
| Issuer | Volksbank zu Lutter am Barenberge E.G.m.u.H. |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | F. Jüttner |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream field enclosed by a decorative border of intertwined red ribbon and green foliate scroll work, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in the four corners. The central text, rendered in Gothic blackletter script, reads 'Anweisung über 10 Pfg.' with the value numeral in bold red, followed by the issuing authority and place text 'auf die Volksbank Lutter a. Barenberge E.G.m.u.H. für den Wirkungskreis dieser Bank und Sparkasse Lutter am Barenberge, den 30.12.1920 Volksbank zu Lutter/Bbge E.G.m.u.H.' Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre, flanked by the initials 'F.' and 'J.' at lower left and right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | Anweisung über 10 Pfg. auf die Volksbank Lutter a. Barenberge E.G.m.u.H. für den Wirkungskreis dieser Bank und Sparkasse Lutter am Barenberge, den 30.12.1920 Volksbank zu Lutter/Bbge E.G.m.u.H. |
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Lutter am Barenberge is a small town in Lower Saxony best known for the 1626 Battle of Lutter, where Catholic League forces under Tilly routed Christian IV of Denmark. By 1920, the town's cooperative bank was doing something far more mundane but economically telling: printing its own emergency money. This note is Notgeld — small-denomination scrip issued by municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives to address the acute coin shortage that plagued Germany during and after the First World War.
F. Jüttner's designer credit here is worth noting. The same name appears across a number of Notgeld issues from this period, suggesting either a regional commercial artist who specialized in the format or a catalog supplier offering template designs to small issuers.