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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Detmold |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Salmon ground with a recessed rectangular frame enclosing a boldly coloured vignette of a marching Napoleonic-era Lippe infantryman in full blue and red uniform, white breeches and gaiters, carrying a musket at the slope, set against a dark silhouette of Detmold's church spires. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in large blue numerals at the upper left, with a two-line Gothic-script motto across the top and a concluding verse line across the bottom, all in dark blue letterpress on the salmon field outside the frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Lippe-Detmold eine wunderschöne Stadt darinnen ein Soldat. 50 Pf. Und der mußt' marschieren in den Krieg! |
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Detmold's municipal authority issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that followed Germany's post-WWI coin shortage — a shortage so acute that hundreds of German towns and cities printed their own Kleingeldersatz in 1919–1920. The Magistrat der Stadt Detmold was the civil administrative body of the capital of the Free State of Lippe, a tiny German state that retained nominal sovereignty until 1933.
Lippe's notgeld issues are generally better documented than those of comparable small municipalities, owing to the collector mania that gripped Germany almost immediately — printers and issuers quickly learned that philatelically minded buyers would absorb entire print runs without a note ever entering trade.