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50 Pfennig Lutherhalle, L
| Issuer | Stadt Wittenberg (City of Wittenberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents an engraved bust portrait of Martin Luther after the 1520 copperplate engraving by Lucas Cranach the Elder, captioned below "Martin Luther n.e. Kupferst. v. L. Cranach, 1520". The header bears the inscription "Lutherhalle Wittenberg" in Gothic script against a purple decorative border, while the lower panel states the denomination "50 Pf." flanked on both sides, with the text "Ausgegeben Invocavit 1922" and the series letter "L" at centre. Vertical side panels carry additional text in Gothic script, the left reading the redemption notice and the right a further clause. |
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| Reverse lettering | Niemand lasse den Glauben daran fahren, daß Gott an ihm eine große Tat will. Lutherhaus Wenner-Collenburg Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig. |
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Wittenberg's 1922 Notgeld issues were part of the city's deliberate effort to exploit the collector market that had developed around German emergency currency — by this point, many municipalities were printing series specifically designed to be bought and kept rather than spent. The Lutherhalle series is an obvious example of that phenomenon, trading on Wittenberg's position as the site of Luther's residence and the Reformation's epicenter to produce notes with obvious tourist and philatelist appeal.
Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer active across multiple Notgeld commissions in Saxony during this period, not a specialist security printer. These notes were never intended to bear serious scrutiny as monetary instruments.