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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Lügumkloster (Der Bürgermeister) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Bekanntmachung Denne Pengeseddel mister sin Gyldighed en Maaned efter offentlig Bekendtgørelse LÜGUMKLOSTER · DEN 10. JANUAR 1920 DER BÜRGERMEISTER No. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN 50 PFENNIG LÜGUMKLOSTER EGGELING |
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Lügumkloster — Løgumkloster in Danish — sat directly in the contested territory resolved by the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites. The town voted to remain in Germany in the second zone referendum that February, and this note was issued in the same year that border finally settled. Small municipal Notgeld of this period frequently doubled as local propaganda, and the choice of designer and printer here is telling: both Eggeling and Gebh. & Kunze were Flensburg-based, anchoring the piece firmly in the German commercial network of the region even as Danish administration took hold just kilometers north.
The issuing authority — Der Bürgermeister — reflects the hyperlocal emergency currency structure common to German Notgeld, with mayors rather than banks signing off on small-denomination scrip.