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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Lemgo |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | Purple ground with a bold two-color letterpress design in green, centered on a stylized silhouette of Lemgo's historic skyline — church spires and towers rising beneath an arching canopy form — flanked in the upper corners by the denomination numeral '25' on each side. The city name 'Alte Hansestadt Lemgo' is rendered in large decorative Art Nouveau script across the lower margin, with the artist's monogram 'KM' visible at lower right of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 25 Alte Hansestadt Lemgo |
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Lemgo's municipal administration issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years — a period when hundreds of German towns printed their own Kleingeldersatz simply to keep daily commerce moving. The printer, Oscar Mai, was a local Lemgo firm, meaning design, production, and circulation all stayed within the same small town.
Lemgo itself was a former Hanseatic city of modest size by 1921, and its notgeld output was correspondingly limited in volume. Small municipal issues like this one were often redeemed quickly and destroyed, which accounts for the relative scarcity of surviving examples in collectible condition.