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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lübbecke (City of Lübbecke) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT LÜBBECKE i/W. 50 Fünfzig Pfennig Lübbecke i/w. den 8. Dez. 1920 Der Magistrat Pütz Blase |
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| Reverse lettering | 2. Gruppe A Nr. RATHAUS IN LÜBBECKE i.W. 50 50 50 50 Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgtem öffentlichem Aufruf. |
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Lübbecke's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the first sustained wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after the Imperial government failed to produce enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand. Pfennig coins had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919 — hoarded, melted, or lost to wartime disruption — leaving towns like Lübbecke to fill the gap themselves. The two signatures, Pütz and Blase, almost certainly represent local municipal officials rather than a banking authority.
Self-printed by the city, which was common for smaller Westphalian towns at this scale of issue.