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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lenzen an der Elbe (City of Lenzen an der Elbe) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notschein der Stadt Lenzen Elbe GÜLTIG BIS 1 MONAT NACH ABRUF Kreis-Westprignitz, Reg. Bez. Potsdam Ort slavischen Ursprungs, der älteste der Prignitz Urkundlich zuerst im Jahre 929 erwähnt. Der Magistrat: [Scheel] Bürgermeister GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN. |
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| Reverse lettering | Burg Auf 23 Meter hohem Hügel im 13. Jahrhundert errichtet und durch die Quitzows im 14. Jahrhundert ausgebaut. Der Turm ist 28 Meter hoch, sein Durchmesser beträgt 12 Meter. |
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Lenzen an der Elbe is a small town in Brandenburg that issued this note as part of Germany's Kleingeldersatz emergency — the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued the country from roughly 1916 onward and pushed thousands of municipalities into printing their own fractional currency. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a significant volume of this Notgeld work, supplying towns across Germany with competently printed but commercially produced scrip.
The Scheel signature identifies the issuing authority as the Bürgermeister's office rather than a local savings institution — municipal rather than banking issuance, which was the more common arrangement for smaller Elbe-region towns.