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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Luckau (District Committee of Luckau) |
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| Year | 1917-1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Tan and blue Notgeld note with a beige floral guilloche underprint across the field. At centre top, a vignette of a standing ox within a wreath of golden laurel and decorative scrollwork flanked by symmetrical foliate ornaments; the numeral '50' appears in large black type at upper left and right. A blue cartouche in the lower half carries the denomination legend in Gothic script, the issuing place and date, and the issuer designation 'Der Kreisausschuß', below which two manuscript signatures appear; series letter designation 'REIHE BBB.' in red at lower left and a serial number in red at lower right. The printer's imprint 'JOHANNES PÄSSLER, DRESDEN-N' is letterpress-printed below the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | Blue and tan note with an outer border of repeating blue scroll ornaments enclosing corner numerals '50' in tan. A central shaped cartouche on a beige floral guilloche ground carries the issuer name 'Kreis Luckau' in bold black Gothic lettering and 'Gutschein.' in blue Gothic script, beneath which the redemption text is set in three lines of black cursive Gothic type. |
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Luckau's 50 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the first wave of municipally-issued emergency small change that flooded Germany after coins were hoarded or melted down from 1916 onward. The Kreisausschuss — the district administrative committee, not a bank — was the issuing authority, which was typical of rural Prussian districts that lacked a local savings institution with the standing to issue independently. Johannes Pässler of Dresden-Neustadt was a small commercial printer who handled notgeld contracts for several regional issuers during this period.
The 1917–1919 validity window is wider than most first-series notgeld, suggesting Luckau reissued or extended rather than replacing its stock when the initial shortage persisted.