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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lörrach (City of Lörrach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 80 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central rectangular vignette in dark brown showing a panoramic townscape of Lörrach with a church tower and rooftops in the foreground, sunrays radiating from the upper portion of the scene and a dove in flight above the skyline. The vignette is framed by an elaborate Art Nouveau border of intertwined flowering vines with green leaves and yellow blossoms, flanked by gold-ruled inner rules. Denomination numerals '50' and abbreviation 'Pfg' appear in the upper corners, and the inscription 'STADT LÖRRACH' is lettered in bold across the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg STADT LÖRRACH |
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Lörrach's 1920 Notgeld emission belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany as federal small change disappeared into hoarding and melting. The Stadt Lörrach issue is unremarkable in denomination — 50 Pfennig notes were among the most common produced by hundreds of German municipalities in this period — but the printing date of 30 April 1920 places it squarely in the inflationary anxiety that preceded, by three years, the catastrophic hyperinflation that would render all such notes worthless anyway.
Lörrach sits on the Swiss and French borders, and local commerce with Basel gave the town an unusually acute sensitivity to currency stability. Whether that proximity influenced the volume or design of this emission is unrecorded.