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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse der Stadt Lauenburg (Elbe) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Müller-Gera |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three panels within a dark brown border surmounted by the title in gold Gothic lettering. The left panel carries a colour-printed vignette of a half-timbered merchant's house captioned 'Altes Kaufmannshaus', while the right panel shows a second historic timber-framed structure captioned 'Knüsperhäuschen'. The central panel presents the denomination '25 Pf' in white script within a circular guilloche on a blue-green ground, with a prominent anchor device below. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt 25 Pf Lauenburg an der Elbe Altes Kaufmannshaus Knüsperhäuschen |
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| Comments |
Lauenburg an der Elbe issued this Notgeld note in the inflationary spiral of 1921, when hundreds of German municipalities resorted to printing their own small-denomination emergency currency to compensate for the chronic shortage of Reichs coin. Moll K.G. in Lübeck handled a considerable volume of such municipal commissions across the northern German region, and their production quality was generally above the cheapest end of the Notgeld market.
The designer credit to Müller-Gera — likely the commercial artist Fritz Müller from Gera — appears across multiple Notgeld series of this period, suggesting a freelance arrangement rather than any civic commission.