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25 Pfennig Volksbank
| Issuer | Volksbank zu Lutter am Barenberge E.G.m.u.H. |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out as a text-only instrument order in Fraktur script, framed by a decorative border of stylised red and teal scrollwork with corner ornaments and the denomination numeral 25 in each corner. The heading reads 'Anweisung über 25 Pfg.' in bold Gothic lettering, followed by the full issuing text identifying the Volksbank Lutter a. Barenberge E.G.m.u.H. and the date 30.12.1920. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre beneath the bank's name and cooperative designation. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vivid multicolour vignette in red, teal, and black, illustrating a chaotic battle scene identified as General Tilly after the Battle of Lutter am Barenberge (1626), with mounted and foot soldiers in period costume crowding the composition against a background of the town's church spires and burning buildings. The denomination numeral 25 appears in decorative cartouches at the upper left and lower right. A ribbon banner at the top bears the identifying caption in Fraktur script. |
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Lutter am Barenberge is a small town in Lower Saxony best known, if at all, for the 1626 Battle of Lutter — but this note has nothing to do with that. It belongs instead to the flood of Kleingeldersatz that swept Germany in 1920, when coin metal disappeared from circulation and local cooperative banks, municipal bodies, and private firms filled the gap with their own emergency fractions. The Volksbank here was a registered cooperative with unlimited liability — that "E.G.m.u.H." designation meant members were personally on the hook, which was intended to inspire confidence in the paper.
The DeNG reference suffix ".1-2/3" suggests at least two closely related variants within this issue, most likely differing in serial number range or overprint detail.