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50 Pfennig Lübeckische Staatskasse
| Issuer | Lübeckische Staatskasse |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-white note with a fine wavy-line guilloche border enclosing a block of text in Gothic script. The header reads 'Wechselschein zur Aushilfe' above the large denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold blackletter, followed by a bilingual notice stating that the note is accepted by all Lübeck state offices and banks, that its validity expires on 31 December 1919, and that notes may be exchanged in amounts of 5 Mark at the Lübeckische Staatskasse. The date 'Lübeck, 1. Juni 1918.' is printed in the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Wechselschein zur Aushilfe Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen lübeckischen staatlichen Kassen und von den Banken in Lübeck in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit mit dem Ablauf des 31. Dezember 1919. In Beträgen von 5 Mark werden diese Scheine durch die Lübeckische Staatskasse gegen Kassenscheine oder Noten eingetauscht. Lübeck, 1. Juni 1918. |
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Lübeck retained its status as a Free Hanseatic City under the German Empire, and its Staatskasse — the municipal treasury — issued these emergency notes as Kleingeldersatz during the acute coin shortage caused by wartime metal requisitioning. By 1917 the imperial government had been pulling copper and nickel coinage from circulation for nearly three years, and Notgeld of this type flooded German municipalities as a practical substitute. Rahtgens was a local Lübeck printer, and the note never left the city's immediate commerce.