50 Pfennig Nordische Woche

The Nordische Woche — Nordic Week — was a cultural festival held in Lübeck in June 1921, organized to strengthen ties between Germany and Scandinavia at a moment when Germany's international standing had been gutted by Versailles. The city issued this Notgeld series specifically for the occasion, making it a promotional issue as much as an emergency one — collectibility was the point from the start, and dealers were selling sets before the festival closed.

Rahtgens was Lübeck's own printer, and Günteritz's designs for the series are among the more considered of the Notgeld boom years. The reference splits this into two sub-varieties, distinguished by minor printing differences rather than separate dates of issue.