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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinderat von Lörrach (City Council of Lörrach) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | DAS INSIEGEL DER STADT LÖRRACH 1756. Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde. Die Gültigkeit erlischt 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntgabe. GEMEINDERAT VON LÖRRACH. BURGERMEISTER. LITH. KUNSTANSTALT POPPEN & ORTMANN FREIBURG I.B. |
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| Reverse lettering | Siehsch dort vorne 's Röttler Schloß verfalleni Muure? = Wildi Taube niste dort uff moosige Bäume! 50 Pf. |
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Lörrach sits on the Swiss and French borders in Baden, and its wartime municipal scrip reflects precisely that geographic tension — the town's own merchants were competing with hard currency crossing from neutral Switzerland while the Reich's metal coinage vanished into wartime hoarding. Municipal councils across Baden issued their own Notgeld under local authority rather than through any central arrangement, which is why the Poppen & Ortmann lithographic shop in Freiburg handled so many of these small-denomination pieces for surrounding towns.
The DeNG reference catalogues six distinct varieties within this single denomination, suggesting the series was reissued or modified across multiple printings — unusual volume for a market town of Lörrach's size.