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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Amtsbezirk Koberg (Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency currency) voucher printed in black on pale paper with a light blue-grey guilloche underprint. The issuing authority inscription 'AMTSBEZIRK KOBERG (KREIS HERZOGTUM LAUENBURG)' appears at the top, with the bold legend 'GUTSCHEIN / UEBER :: 20 PFENNIG' occupying the central field, flanked by the denomination numeral '20' repeated at each corner within the underprint. The date 'KOBERG, 3. MÄRZ 1921.' and the committee designation 'DER AMTSAUSSCHUSS:' are printed below, with three manuscript signatures in red ink, accompanied by a red serial number and asterisk at right. |
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| Protection description | Wmk: Tropfen (droplet pattern watermark) |
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Amtsbezirk Koberg was a rural administrative district in the Duchy of Lauenburg region of Schleswig-Holstein — a genuinely minor jurisdiction to be issuing notgeld, even by the loose standards of the early 1920s German emergency money wave. The 1921 date places this firmly in the municipal notgeld phase, when hundreds of small German communities printed small-denomination scrip to address the chronic shortage of coin that had worsened steadily since the war years.
The watermark security feature is worth noting — most Amtsbezirk-level notgeld of this period used plain paper. Its presence here suggests the issuer sourced pre-watermarked stock rather than commissioning a bespoke security measure.