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50 Pfennig Nordische Woche
| Issuer | Lübeck (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Light blue note with a red outer border, the background filled with a repeated pale blue-grey underprint of the Lübeck double-headed eagle. A large central oval divided horizontally into white over red — the civic colours of Lübeck — carries the city's heraldic double-headed eagle rendered in black and gold on a shield; the title NORDISCHE WOCHE is split in bold black block lettering across the upper and lower horizontal bands of the oval respectively. A small letter A appears to the lower right of the oval, and the designer's imprint W. GÜNTERITZ, LÜBECK. is printed at the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | NORDISCHE WOCHE |
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Nordische Woche — Nordic Week — was a cultural festival held in Lübeck in July 1921, promoting pan-Nordic identity at a moment when Weimar Germany was searching for coherent national myths amid postwar humiliation and hyperinflationary pressure. This series of five 50-Pfennig notes was issued specifically for the event, making it collector-oriented notgeld from the outset rather than emergency currency meeting any genuine change shortage.
Rahtgens was a local Lübeck printer rather than one of the large specialist notgeld houses, which gives the series a regional character that the bigger Leipzig and Berlin runs lack. Günteritz designed all five pieces in the set — DeNG catalogs them as 0827.1-1 through 1-5.