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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lingen (City of Lingen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 75 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | X FÜNFUNDZWANZIG · PFENNIG 25 Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städtischen Kassen zu Lingen in Zahlung genommen. Er wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach Bekanntmachung bei der Stadtkasse zu Lingen eingelöst wird. Lingen, den 1. April 1921 Der Magistrat / Das Bürgervorsteher-Kollegium: ADOLF FORKER, LEIPZIG. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Lingen 3 Altes Rathaus. 25 Fünfund-zwanzig-Pfennig |
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Lingen's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as coin shortages, rampant hoarding, and postwar economic dislocation made fractional Reichsmark coinage functionally unavailable. Stadt Lingen, a small administrative town in Lower Saxony, contracted Adolf Forker in Leipzig — a printer who handled a substantial volume of provincial Notgeld commissions during this period.
Forker's output was competent but high-volume, and the Lingen pieces show it. Validity periods were typically printed on issues of this type to limit redemption liability — check whether a cancellation date appears, as expired notes were often not redeemed and survived in quantity.