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25 Pfennig Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche des Landesteiles Lübeck
| Issuer | Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche des Landesteiles Lübeck |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in red, blue, and black on white paper. At center, the large numeral '25' is set within a white diamond lozenge, flanked on either side by a black diamond lozenge each containing a vignette of a chalice. The border is formed by a repeating geometric pattern of alternating red and blue triangular elements. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower center beneath the issuer and redemption inscriptions. |
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| Reverse lettering | LUC.20V25 GEBET . DEM . KAISER . WAS . DES . KAISERS . IST . UND . GOTTE . WAS . GOTTES . IST (Translation: Lucas 20 verse 25 Give the emperor what is the right of the emperor and God what is the right of God) |
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A Lutheran regional church issuing emergency currency is not as strange as it sounds in 1921 — Weimar Germany's Notgeld wave pulled in municipalities, businesses, associations, and religious bodies alike, all filling the void left by chronic small-denomination coin shortages. The Landeskirche des Landesteiles Lübeck was a separate ecclesiastical jurisdiction from Hamburg's church, a legacy of Lübeck's long history as a Free City, and it retained enough institutional independence to act on its own during the crisis.
Printed locally by H. G. Rahtgens, the note was almost certainly a short-lived instrument — most church-issued Notgeld was redeemed quickly once Reichsbank reforms stabilized small change supply later in the decade.