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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lütjenburg (City of Lütjenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 95 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Lütjenburg 100 PFG Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung in der Lütjenburger Zeitung. Die Stadt Lütjenburg. Lütjenburg, den 2. März 1921. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of a pink half-timbered building with a church steeple rising behind it, surrounded by trees, printed in polychrome letterpress. To the upper right, a humorous cartouche in Low German verse is accompanied by an illustrated figure of a man in period dress holding a bottle aloft beside a laden table. The town arms of Lütjenburg — a heraldic shield with a fortified wall above a red field charged with a crowned figure — appear in the upper left corner beneath the denomination "100 PFG", while the bold red Fraktur inscription "Notgeld der Stadt Lütjenburg" runs across the full width of the lower margin against a dark ground. |
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Lütjenburg is a small market town in Holstein — population well under 5,000 even today — and its decision to issue notgeld at the 100 Pfennig denomination in 1921 places this squarely in the tail end of Germany's municipal emergency currency wave. By that point the acute coin shortage of the war years had largely passed, but many towns continued issuing collector-oriented notgeld for the simple reason that philatelic demand made it profitable. Whether this note saw genuine circulation or was printed primarily for sale to collectors is the more honest question.
Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck handled a considerable volume of Holstein municipal commissions during this period.