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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lübz (Magistrat) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light green notgeld note with a fine guilloche underprint and decorative border. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is printed in large bold type below the issuer title, with a stamped serial number and redemption text signed by Der Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Lübz. Fünfzig Pfennig No. 20111 Die Frist, innerhalb welcher das Notgeld zur Einlösung bei der Sparkasse der Stadt Lübz vorzulegen ist, wird durch den „Mecklenburger Bote” bekannt gemacht. Der Magistrat. |
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Lübz is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I. The Magistrat's 50 Pfennig note belongs to this wave of emergency small-denomination scrip — produced locally or by regional printers to substitute for metal coinage that had been hoarded or melted down from roughly 1917 onward.
The serial number is the only security feature, which was typical of lower-value municipal issues where counterfeiting was considered an unlikely problem given the purely local acceptance of the notes.