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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lüdinghausen (City of Lüdinghausen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 20 Pfennigs (20 Pfennige) (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green, tan, and red on paper, with the issuing authority title "Notgeld der Stadt Lüdinghausen" in bold Gothic lettering across the top. The denomination "Pf. 20 Pf." is rendered in large, ornate script against a green band underprint occupying the central field, flanked above and below by red ruled lines. The lower portion carries a validity clause in German text, the place and date "Lüdinghausen, d. 1. Oktober 1921," the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, and the printer's imprint "Fr. Wilh. Ruhfus, Dortmund" at lower left with "B. Wank & Weischer" at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 20 Hat nichts mit Fleiß und Sparsamkeit, da alle Wirtschaft met naix geht. |
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Lüdinghausen is a small Westphalian town best known for Burg Vischering, one of the best-preserved moated castles in the region — an odd setting for notgeld, perhaps, but the early Weimar inflation crisis of 1921 forced even minor municipalities to paper over the chronic coin shortage with locally issued emergency money. Fr. Wilh. Ruhfus was a well-established Dortmund printing house that handled a substantial volume of Westphalian notgeld commissions during this period, which kept production quality consistent even for small-run civic issues like this one.
The DeNG reference places this within the first series grouping for Lüdinghausen, suggesting multiple denominations were issued concurrently.