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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lüben (City of Lüben, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | L. Fernbach, Bunzlau, Poland |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in dark violet on plain paper. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is rendered in decorative Gothic lettering across the top, with the numeral '50' in a circular vignette at center. The lower portion carries the issuer inscription 'Stadt Lüben', the validity clause 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920.', the redemption notice through the Stadthauptkasse, and the date 'Lüben, den 15. Oktober 1919' alongside the manuscript signature of Der Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig in bar Stadt Lüben Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösung erfolgt bis Ende 1920 durch die Stadthauptkasse. Lüben, den 15. Oktober 1919 Der Magistrat |
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Lüben was a small Silesian market town — precisely the kind of municipality that found itself issuing its own emergency currency in 1919 when the postwar coin shortage left ordinary commerce at a standstill. Germany's Kleingeldersatz problem was national in scale, and hundreds of towns like Lüben filled the vacuum with locally authorized Notgeld before the Reichsbank could stabilize small denomination supply.
L. Fernbach of Bunzlau, roughly 30 kilometers away, was a regional printer serving the Silesian trade rather than a specialist banknote firm — a detail that places this squarely in the improvised end of the Notgeld spectrum. The suffix "c" in the DeNG reference indicates a distinct variety within the L70.4 type, likely a color or paper variant.