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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Luckenwalde (City of Luckenwalde) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0817.1-2/3 |
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| Reverse description | Orange and violet Notgeld note with a fine guilloche underprint. A bold violet header band carries the inscription 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIG' in large orange serif capitals flanked by decorative arrow motifs. At centre, a large ornate circular vignette in orange and violet frames a felt hat with a feather — a reference to Luckenwalde's historic hat-making industry — flanked by two circular medallions bearing the numeral '50'. Below, a panoramic silhouette of the Luckenwalde townscape with church spires and factory chimneys stretches across the full width of the note. A lower violet band carries 'STADT LUCKENWALDE' in large orange capitals, and the entire composition is enclosed by an ornamental border with foliate corner pieces. |
| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG PFENNIG 50 50 STADT LUCKENWALDE |
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Luckenwalde's 1921 Notgeld issues belong to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — the period after the immediate postwar chaos but well before hyperinflation made small-denomination paper effectively worthless. By 1921, hundreds of German cities were still issuing their own Pfennig-denomination scrip simply because the Reichsbank could not supply enough small coinage to meet everyday commercial demand. Luckenwalde, a modest textile-industry town in Brandenburg, was among them.
The DeNG reference 0817 covers multiple Luckenwalde types across different issuing rounds; the .1-2/3 suffix indicates this is one of two or three design variants in the set — collectors should verify which specific serial or color variant they hold before cataloging.