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50 Pfennig Lockstedter Lager
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lockstedter Lager |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 2#810.1 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a red water tower set within a landscape with trees and rolling hills under a cloudy sky. The heading NOTGELD appears in large red letters at top, flanked by two heraldic eagle vignettes bearing coat-of-arms shields; a poetic German verse runs along the left margin and a rhyming couplet along the right. The denomination 50 PFENNIG appears at lower left and right, with the place name LOCKSTEDTER LAGER in bold letterpress at centre bottom, alongside the validity dates 1. Aug. 1921 and Gültig bis 31. März 1922. |
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| Reverse lettering | 9. NOV. 1918 — REVOLUTION LICHT AUS! MESSER RAUS! BLUT RÜHREN! 50 |
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Lockstedter Lager was a military garrison settlement in Holstein that had housed German Imperial Army troops and, after 1918, became a transit and internment camp during the chaotic demobilization period. The municipality issued its own small-denomination notgeld in 1921 as the postwar inflation made coin disappear entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply worth less than the effort of producing it.
The DeNG 2#810.1 reference places this among the later Serienscheine issues, printed for a community that had no natural economic identity outside its military function. By 1921, that function was gone.