25 Pfennig Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche des Landesteiles Lübeck

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.