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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lucka (City of Lucka, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | A. D. Notgeld der Stadt Lucka 1921 GROSSES SIEGEL 1698 DER KREISSTADT LUCKA R.-CARL-LEIPZIG Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig der einen Monat nach erfolgtem Aufruse seine Gültigkeit verliert Lucka i. Thür., den 21. September 1921. Der Stadtrat. 50 ADOLF FORKER, LEIPZIG |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Fünf Schwaben, die in' Backofen gekrochen, Hat die Bäurin mit der Gabel erstochen. 50 |
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Lucka is a small town in what was then the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld as the postwar inflation rendered low-denomination Reichsmark coinage effectively useless — people hoarded metal, and small change simply vanished from circulation. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer who handled a considerable volume of municipal Notgeld work during this period, producing competent but unremarkable output for towns across Thuringia and Saxony.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented series, suggesting at least one companion note exists.