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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lemgo (City of Lemgo) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned notgeld note with a decorative border in blue-grey. The central vignette presents the heraldic coat of arms of Lemgo — a castle with towers and a rose motif — enclosed within a laurel wreath surmounted by an ornate cartouche. The denomination '25 Pf.' appears in large red numerals at lower left and right, flanking the text 'GUT FÜR 25 PFENNIG'. Below the arms, two lines of German text state the redemption conditions, followed by the date 'LEMGO, 25. Mai 1921' and the facsimile signatures of municipal officials beneath the designations 'DER MAGISTRAT' and 'DER STADTVERORDNETEN-VORSTEHER'. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER ALTEN HANSE STADT LEMGO. 25 Pf. GUT FÜR 25 PFENNIG. 25 Pf. Umwechselung in Reichsgeld jederzeit durch die städtischen Kassen. Ungültig 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung. LEMGO, 25. Mai 1921 DER MAGISTRAT: DER STADTVERORDNETEN-VORSTEHER: Bürgermeister. Ratssiegler. Ratsbeisitzer. Kamerarius. Kamerarius. |
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Lemgo's 1921 Notgeld issue was one of hundreds produced by German municipalities during the postwar inflationary spiral, when coin shortages and currency instability forced local authorities to print their own emergency money. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling contracts for numerous small towns simultaneously — which occasionally shows in the standardized borders shared across otherwise unrelated issues.
Glogau itself became Głogów after the postwar border shifts reassigned Silesia, leaving the printing firm's address stranded in a different country within a generation.