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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Lennep (City of Lennep) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint with ornate foliate border frames the note. The denomination "Zwanzig Mark" is set in large Fraktur blackletter across the centre, above three lines of redemption text dated 5 November 1918. The city arms of Lennep appear lower left, flanked by three manuscript signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Stadt Lennep 20 (Translation: 20 City of Lennep 20) |
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Lennep, a textile manufacturing town in the Bergisches Land east of Düsseldorf, issued this note during the final months of World War One as municipal coffers ran dry and the Reichsbank could not supply enough small-denomination currency to keep local commerce functioning. This kind of Stadtgeld — city-issued emergency paper — proliferated across Germany in 1918, but Lennep's position as a historic cloth-trading center gave its municipal authority enough commercial credibility to keep the notes in local circulation without serious resistance.
Lennep was absorbed into the newly created city of Remscheid in 1929, making its independent municipal issues a closed series by definition.