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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lehrte (City of Lehrte) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Teal letterpress Notgeld printed on white paper, enclosed within a dotted border with denomination numerals '50' in each corner. The central vignette presents an industrial panorama of Lehrte with factory smokestacks and a townscape silhouette, above which the large numeral '50' is set within a cloud-like cartouche. The city arms of Lehrte appear below the vignette flanked by the inscriptions 'STADT LEHRTE' and '1. JANUAR 1921', with a facsimile signature line and a validity clause in German script below. |
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| Reverse description | Teal letterpress on white paper with a dotted outer border and denomination numerals '50' in each corner. A central ornate cartouche with guilloche-style underprint carries the bold inscription 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIG', surmounted by the heading 'GUTSCHEIN FÜR'. Small vignettes occupy the lower corners — a railway scene at lower left and an industrial motif at lower right — with the serial number printed in black below the validity clause, and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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Lehrte's 50 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 is one of the more self-contained examples of municipal emergency money from the Weimar inflation period — designed, printed, and issued entirely within the same small town by a local firm. Otto Hoffmann & Sohn operated as a regional printer without the engraving resources of larger houses, which shows in the execution.
The Gra#L30.1d suffix indicates a specific plate variant within the L30 series — Grabowski's notgeld cataloguing distinguishes these by minor typographic or color differences that are easily overlooked without direct comparison.