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50 Pfennig Plattdeutsche Volksgilde
| Issuer | Plattdütsche Volksgill to Lübeck |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Plattdütsche Volksgill to Lübeck Dit Gillngeld delt in de Gill 50 Pennin Lübeck, 15. Oktober. 1921. No Wo lang de Schien delt, ward 4 Weken vörher bekannt makt. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two fields: the left half carries a polychrome vignette of a figure known as the "Raadsdener" (council servant), dressed in a red coat and tricorn hat, standing in a Gothic arched corridor flanked by two carved stone pillar figures, signed "W. Bräck" at lower right. The right half is filled with a Low German verse in blackletter script arranged in eight lines. |
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Plattdütsche Volksgill to Lübeck was not a bank or municipality but a regional cultural society promoting Low German language and identity — an unusual issuer for notgeld, even by the eclectic standards of early Weimar-era emergency money. The 1921 date places this after the acute coin shortage that drove most notgeld production, suggesting the society issued partly for commemorative or promotional purposes rather than genuine payment necessity.
W. Bräck's involvement points to local craft production rather than a commercial printer's run, which accounts for the relatively small surviving quantities.