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50 Pfennig Lockstedter Lager
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lockstedter Lager |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a somber World War I commemorative vignette in blue, red, and black lithography, showing a fallen soldier laid out on a bier before a wall of flames, with a large Latin cross rising behind and a single red rose placed at his feet beside a broken sword and a laurel sprig. The header inscription '1914–18 WELTKRIEG' is set in black across the upper field, flanked by the cross at centre. A bold bottom panel bears the denomination numerals '50' at each corner framing the memorial quotation, with the artist's signature 'Kläser 5.2' inscribed at lower right within the vignette border. |
| Reverse lettering | 1914-18 WELTKRIEG UNSER ERBE IST DEN FREMDEN ZU TEIL GEWORDEN "Kläger 5.2" 50 50 |
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Lockstedter Lager was a military garrison town in Holstein — the "Lager" (camp) in its name reflects its origin as a Prussian army training ground established in the 1870s. By 1921, with Weimar-era small change chronically absent from circulation, the Gemeinde issued this Notgeld through H.G. Rahtgens of Lübeck, a printer responsible for a substantial portion of Holstein's municipal emergency currency during this period. H.C. Delfs is credited as designer, an attribution uncommon enough in Notgeld production to suggest a local commission rather than a stock design.