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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lunden (Municipality of Lunden) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan and black Notgeld note with a central vignette of the Lunden municipal coat of arms — a divided shield bearing a black eagle on the left and a vertical rake or harrow implement on the right. Denomination numerals "50" appear at both left and right flanks. A banner scroll at top carries the town name in Gothic script; the lower border panel shows "Gutschein" with a serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Tan and multicolour note centred on a vignette of the Lunden church tower rising above foliage, rendered in letterpress in green, red, and cream tones. Denomination numerals "50" flank the vignette at left and right; Low German verse stanzas in Gothic script fill the side panels. A banner scroll at top reads "Fössti Penn" and the lower scroll carries "Gutschein vun Lunden Dithmarsch". |
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Lunden is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had plagued everyday commerce since the war. The Louis Koch firm in Halberstadt was a minor regional printer responsible for a large number of these municipal issues, most of them undistinguished in design and short-lived in circulation.
The reference number DeNG 1/2#845.1 places this within the standard Grabowski-Mehl catalog of German Notgeld, the primary scholarly tool for the series. Multiple municipalities issued near-identical formats through the same printers, which makes precise attribution important — and occasionally contested.