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50 Pfennig

Issuer Gemeinderat von Lörrach (City Council of Lörrach)
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Designer(s) K. Freund
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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.
No BURGERMEISTER.
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Reverse lettering ·JOH·PET· ·HEBEL·
Us der Haimet chunnt der Sähle
S muess liebt in der Haimet sie!
·1760· ·1820·
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Lörrach notgeld was issued under emergency municipal authority during the hyperinflationary breakdown of the early Weimar period, when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small denomination currency to keep local commerce functioning. Poppen & Ortmann in Freiburg were a regional lithographic house responsible for a significant volume of Baden notgeld — their output was competent but not distinguished, and K. Freund's design credit here is one of the few cases where the artist is identified at all within this printer's run.

The DeNG reference (1/2#813.1-3/6) indicates multiple varieties within the issue, likely differing in serial number placement or underprint color — a common source of confusion when attributing Lörrach material.

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