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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lyck (City of Lyck) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic engraved vignette of the city of Lyck viewed across the lake, with a sailing boat in the foreground, an arched bridge to the right, and the town's skyline with church steeples rendered in fine line work against a pale sky. The numeral '5' appears in large bold type at the upper left. Below the vignette, a decorative cartouche contains a two-column patriotic verse in Gothic script celebrating the Masurian lakes and homeland. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 Wild flutet der See! Drauf schaukelt der Schiffer den schwankenden Kahn. Schaum wälzt er wie Schnee Von grausiger Mitte zum Ufer hinan Wild fluten die Wogen auf Vaterlands Seen. Wie schön! O tragt mich auf Spiegeln zu Hügeln Masorias-Seen! Masoriastrand, mein Heimatland. Masovia lebe, mein Vaterland! |
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Lyck — known today as Ełk in northeastern Poland — was the administrative center of Kreis Lyck in East Prussia, and this note belongs to the wave of Kleingeldersatz issued across Germany following the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. Municipal and civic bodies were legally permitted to fill the gap, and hundreds of small German towns did exactly that in 1919–1920.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were one of the more prolific regional printers of Notgeld during this period, handling municipal commissions from across Silesia and East Prussia. The firm's output was competent but not among the artistically ambitious Serienscheine that collectors prize most — this note was functional issue, not a souvenir series.