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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Lübeck |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 44 × 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and black on cream paper within a simple rectangular border. A large stylised numeral '20' in red dominates the centre, set against radiating sunburst lines. The validity inscription arcs along the upper portion in black letterpress text, with the issuing authority and date inscribed along the lower edge, accompanied by two facsimile signatures; the printer's mark 'A.M.' appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | I. DER LÜBSCHE ADLER IM EI GEBRÜDER BORCHERS G.M.B.H. LÜBECK |
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Lübeck occupied an unusual constitutional position in Weimar Germany — one of only a handful of territories retaining the status of a Free State, a remnant of its Hanseatic autonomy. The Stadtkasse, the municipal treasury rather than a bank, issued this emergency note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921, when inflation had made hoarding coins economically rational and the Reichsbank could not keep low denominations in circulation.
Gebrüder Borchers was a local Lübeck printer, which meant production, authorization, and distribution all happened within the same city — an unusually self-contained arrangement even by Notgeld standards.