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20 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Lauenburg i. Pom. |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Lauenburg i. Pom. Kriegsnotgeld 20 Mark Dieser Kriegsnotgeldschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung bei der Stadthauptkasse zu Lauenburg i. Pom. zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Lauenburg i. Pom., den 15. November 1918. Der Magistrat der Stadt Lauenburg i. Pom. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in ochre-brown on plain paper, with a broad guilloche lattice border framing the entire field. The denomination 'ZWANZIG MARK' is set in large decorative shaded capitals across the top and again across the bottom of the note, while a central rectangular panel in lighter tone carries the guarantee text in smaller letterpress. |
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Lauenburg in Pommern — today Lębork in Poland — was a small Prussian town with no business issuing its own emergency currency, yet by late 1918 the collapse of normal coin circulation had forced hundreds of German municipalities into exactly that position. This note is part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept Germany in the final year of the war, when small-denomination metal coinage had effectively vanished from everyday trade.
Municipal Notgeld from Pomeranian towns of this size was rarely printed in large quantities, and redemption after stabilization was often incomplete.