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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lennep (City of Lennep) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Altbergische Tuchmacherstadt LENNEP STADT LENNEP Siegel der Stadt 1824 REIHE C Lennep 15. Juli 1921 Gültig bis 4 Wochen nach Aufruf im amtlichen Kreisblatt Der Bürgermeister Druck: J. A. Schwarz, Lindenberg i. Allgäu |
| Reverse description | Printed in green and red, the reverse is dominated by a wide panoramic engraving of the town of Lennep as it appeared circa 1824, set within a rolling agricultural landscape with church steeples rising above the rooftops. A decorative banner cartouche at the upper portion, incorporating a loom-shuttle motif, carries a Gothic blackletter verse alluding to the town's historic weaving trade. The denomination numeral "50" appears in red at both upper corners with "PFENNIG" inscribed above, and the caption "LENNEP UM 1824" is set within a ruled panel at the foot of the note. |
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Lennep is a small town in the Bergisches Land, now absorbed into Remscheid since 1929 but still an independent municipality when this note circulated. Like thousands of German towns in 1921, it issued Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation as inflation began accelerating and metal hoarding intensified.
J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu was a prolific Notgeld printer serving dozens of issuing authorities across Germany during this period, which is why the production quality varies little between notes from entirely different regions.