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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Lingen (Magistrat) |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal Notgeld voucher printed in dark grey-brown on cream paper. To the left, a rectangular vignette encloses the heraldic arms of Lingen — a crowned shield supported by two rampant lions, set within a fine guilloche border. The right field carries the denomination "50 Pfg." flanked at either corner, the issuer inscription "Stadt Lingen" in bold letterpress, and the text "Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig" in a prominent display typeface. Below, two manuscript signatures appear beneath the authority legends "Der Magistrat" and "das Bürgervorsteher-Kollegium". |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on plain cream stock, the reverse carries a five-line legal text in Fraktur script stating the voucher's validity conditions and its acceptance by all municipal cashiers of Lingen in exchange for Reichsgeld. The denomination numeral "50" appears in bold at the lower left and lower right corners, flanking the centred text block. |
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Lingen am Ems was a small Westphalian market town, and its Magistrat issued this note as part of the wider German municipal Notgeld wave that peaked in 1917–1922, when chronic small-change shortages — driven by coin hoarding and metal requisitioning for the war effort — forced hundreds of towns to print their own emergency fractional currency. Municipal issues of this denomination were authorized under emergency finance ordinances, with local councils bearing full redemption liability.
The extreme elongation of the format — roughly three times as long as it is tall — is characteristic of a specific subset of Westphalian Kleingeldscheine from this period.