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50 Pfennig Lübeckische Staatskasse
| Issuer | Lübeckische Staatskasse |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey note with a decorative scalloped guilloche border and lateral inscriptions reading '50 PFENNIG' in the side margins. A central watermark-style vignette of an eagle with spread wings serves as underprint, over which the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is printed in bold Gothic script at the top, with '50 Pfg.' in large numerals below. The legend 'Wechselschein zur Aushilfe' and the issuer name 'Lübeckische Staatskasse' appear in the lower central field, accompanied by two manuscript signatures, with the printer's imprint 'H. G. RAHTGENS, LÜBECK' along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 591032 Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Pfg. Wechselschein zur Aushilfe Lübeckische Staatskasse PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG H. G. RAHTGENS, LÜBECK |
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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.