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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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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue dated 1. Aug. 1921, valid until 31. März 1922, with a central vignette of a red water tower set among conifers and rolling landscape. Prussian eagle with shield vignettes occupy the upper left and upper right corners, the right bearing the inscription 'Weimarer Verfassung'. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in the lower lateral panels flanking the central design, with the issuer name 'LOCKSTEDTER LAGER' printed in bold letterpress below the central vignette and the heading 'NOTGELD' at the top. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1870/71 PLUS TARD LA REVANCHE. ANKUNFT GEFANGENER FRANZOSEN. 50 |
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Lockstedter Lager was a purpose-built military cantonment in Holstein, established in the 1890s as a permanent garrison and training ground. After 1918 it transitioned into a civilian settlement, but the community's administrative infrastructure was thin and its economic isolation from the surrounding Itzehoe region was acute — exactly the conditions that produced local Notgeld issues like this one.
The 1921 date places this firmly in the second wave of German municipal Notgeld, by which point many issues had become openly speculative, produced for collector sale rather than genuine circulation. Whether this particular piece actually passed through local hands or went straight into dealer packets is difficult to establish.