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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lahr i.B. (City of Lahr, Baden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) printed in dark blue-black on a pale green underprint, with a decorative guilloche border incorporating circular corner medallions each bearing the numeral '50'. The issuer's name 'STADT LAHR i/B.' is set in bold uppercase lettering at the top, below which the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script over a foliate vignette. The date 'Lahr i/B. 1. August 1920' appears in cursive script beneath the denomination, followed by the City Council designation 'Der Stadtrat:' with a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister, and the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung strafbar' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT LAHR i/B. GUTSCHEIN über Fünfzig Pfennig Lahr i/B. 1. August 1920. Der Stadtrat: Oberbürgermeister. Nachahmung strafbar |
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Lahr's 1920 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the dense wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Baden and the rest of Germany as federal small change was hoarded or melted almost as fast as it could be minted. The city had no particular claim on unusual design treatment — Lahr was one of hundreds of mid-sized German towns scrambling to keep retail transactions moving in the post-armistice economic disorder.
The "i.B." designation — in Baden — was standard municipal boilerplate, distinguishing Lahr from any number of towns sharing the name across the German states.