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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lassan (City of Lassan, Kreis Greifswald) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and orange on cream paper, the face is framed by a decorative guilloche border of interlocking scroll-and-wave ornaments. The issuer inscription Stadt Lassan and district designation Kreis Greifswald appear in bold Fraktur script at the top, with the denomination Gut für 50 Pfennig set in heavy Gothic typeface at centre. The lower portion bears the legend Der Magistrat: Stadtkasse: accompanied by two manuscript signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Reverse lettering | No |
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Lassan is a small coastal town on the Peene estuary in Pomerania, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1920, it issued emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had plagued the Reich since the war years. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand at the fractional level, and local governments filled the gap themselves.
Lassan's series is unremarkable in production terms, almost certainly lithographed locally or through a regional printer serving multiple small Pomeranian issuers simultaneously. The town's population at the time was well under two thousand.