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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Laage (City of Laage) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pf. NOTGELD LAAGE Willst Du för dit Geld Derkung säuben, Denn möst Du nah den'n Tod noch späuken. Gültig bis zum 1. Januar 1924; zahlbar an eigene Ordre nach Sicht. Der Rat der Stadt Laage: Der Stadtverordnetenvorsteher: |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 PFENNIG PFENNIG Der Türmer, der schaut zu Mitten der Nacht, Hinab auf die Gräber in Laage. (Aus Goethes Totentanz.) NOTGELD DER STADT LAAGE |
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Laage is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper currency during the Kleingeldnot — the small change famine that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward, when metal coins disappeared from circulation as copper, nickel, and zinc were requisitioned for the war effort. The Stadt Laage 50 Pfennig belongs to that municipally-issued Notgeld wave, authorized locally rather than by any central banking authority.
The DeNG reference places this within the standard Grabowski-Mehl catalog for German Notgeld, with the 0754 block assigned to Laage issues. The ".2" suffix indicates a second variant — likely a reissue or a revised printing run, though documentation on Laage specifically is thin.