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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 description | Cream-toned note with a decorative red and black Art Nouveau border of interlocking chain and dot motifs. At centre, the ornate oval seal of the City of Lörrach dated 1756, rendered in a baroque cartouche with scrollwork and a dove vignette on a red guilloche ground. The denomination numeral '50' appears twice in large pale underprint at lower left and right, with the serial number and a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister below the central vignette. |
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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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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.