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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lichtenstein-Callnberg (City of Lichtenstein-Callnberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Lichtenstein-Callnberg 50 Pfg Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 1nen Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Lichtenstein-Callnberg, 1. April 1921 Der Stadtrat: Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce, Künstlerdruck, Glauchau (Sachs.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Begegnet ihm een Weßerlein. 50 Pfg Will von en Spaten zurück auf heim. 2 |
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Lichtenstein-Callnberg is a small Saxon industrial town — historically a center of hosiery and textile manufacturing — that issued this note during the acute small-change crisis that gripped Weimar Germany in 1921. Rampant hoarding of metal coinage left municipalities scrambling to fill the gap with locally printed Notgeld, and the Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in nearby Glauchau was a natural choice, being one of Saxony's regional specialty printers capable of the finer "Künstlerdruck" — artist-print — quality that many towns demanded for collector appeal.
That collector market was no accident. By 1921, Notgeld had become a deliberate revenue source for cash-strapped municipalities, with series designed explicitly to be purchased and never redeemed.