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50 Pfennig Lübeckische Staatskasse
| Issuer | Lübeckische Staatskasse |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark green on light ground Wechselschein (emergency change note) with a decorative guilloche border running along all four edges, the denomination repeated in the top and bottom margins reading 'PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG' and vertically in both side margins reading '50 PFENNIG'. The central field carries the gothic script legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig' above the numeral '50 Pfg.' flanked by a spread eagle vignette on a shaded underprint. Below, the text 'Wechselschein zur Aushilfe' is printed in gothic lettering, with a serial number in the lower left and the issuer's name 'Lübeckische Staatskasse' alongside two manuscript signatures to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Pfg. Wechselschein zur Aushilfe Lübeckische Staatskasse No 065158 H.G. RAHTGENS, LÜBECK |
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Lübeck retained its status as a Free State within the Weimar Republic until 1937, when the Nazi government dissolved it through the Greater Hamburg Act — one of the last of the old Hanseatic city-states to lose formal autonomy. This 50 Pfennig notgeld was issued from that independent treasury, the Staatskasse functioning as a genuine state fiscal authority rather than a municipal emergency office.
H. G. Rahtgens was a local Lübeck printer with a long record of commercial work in the city, and the note was both designed and printed entirely within the Free State itself — an unusual degree of self-containment for a small-denomination wartime substitute issue.