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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lehrte (City of Lehrte) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in purple on cream paper, the obverse carries the bold heading STADT LEHRTE / GUTSCHEIN FÜR at the top, with a large stylised numeral 5 in the centre above a panoramic vignette of the Lehrte industrial skyline with factory chimneys and the municipal coat of arms at centre. The inscription STADT LEHRTE and the issue date 1. JANUAR 1921 flank the arms within the vignette, below which a row of facsimile signatures appears above a text block stating the redemption condition. Denomination numerals 5 are repeated in each of the four corner cartouches, and the whole design is enclosed within a dotted guilloche border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in purple on cream paper, is centred on a large cartouche formed by two opposed scrollwork lobes enclosing the bold letterpress legend FÜNF PFENNIG, with a small circular underprint numeral 5 at the cartouche centre. Above the cartouche the title GUTSCHEIN FÜR is set in capital letters, while below it a three-line redemption clause is printed in italics. A serial number prefixed by No° appears at lower centre in heavy black numerals, flanked by two small vignettes — a locomotive at lower left and an industrial pylon at lower right — with the printer's imprint OTTO HOFFMANN & SOHN, LEHRTE. at the foot. Corner cartouches again repeat the denomination 5, and the design is enclosed within the same dotted guilloche frame as the obverse. |
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Lehrte in 1921 was a mid-sized railway junction town in the Hanover region, and its municipal administration — like hundreds of other German towns that year — was forced into the notgeld business by an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Reichsbank simply could not keep fractional metal currency in circulation fast enough; it was being hoarded almost immediately as commodity values climbed.
Printing locally through Otto Hoffmann & Sohn kept costs down and turnaround fast. The Gra#L30.1a designation places this within Grabowski's notgeld reference, which catalogued thousands of such municipal issues — the "a" suffix typically distinguishing a paper variant or a specific print run within the type.