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50 Pfennig Lockstedter Lager
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lockstedter Lager |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and black letterpress, the obverse is divided into three vertical panels: the flanking panels each carry a Prussian eagle with shield in red and white alongside vertical denomination inscriptions, while the central panel presents a water tower set within a landscape of conifers and open water. The issuer name 'LOCKSTEDTER LAGER' runs in large red letters across the lower centre, flanked by the issue date '1. AUG. 1921' and the validity notice 'GÜLTIG BIS 31. MÄRZ 1922'. Three manuscript signatures appear along the bottom authority strip above the legend 'DIE GEMEINDEVERTRETUNG', with the word 'NOTGELD' heading the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a full-bleed Expressionist vignette signed by H.C. Delfs, rendered in orange, yellow, and red, showing the silhouette of a farmer ploughing with a single horse set against a dramatic radiating sunrise. The motto 'ARBEIT FRIEDE BROT' is inscribed in Gothic script across the sunburst sky, with '1921' at upper left and the series title 'DER SIEDLER' at upper right. The denomination '50' is repeated at lower left and right, flanking a proverb cartouche reading 'SICH REGEN, BRINGT SEGEN.' |
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Lockstedter Lager was a military garrison village in Holstein — the "Lager" in its name referring literally to the camp established there in the late nineteenth century for Prussian army training. By 1921 it existed as a civil municipality issuing its own notgeld like hundreds of other small German communities scrambling to fill the small-denomination coin shortage that persisted well into the early Weimar years. H.G. Rahtgens of Lübeck was a regional printer responsible for a number of Holstein notgeld issues during this period, and the designer credit to H.C. Delfs is unusually specific for a fifty-pfennig emergency note — most comparable issues went uncredited.