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50 Pfennig red serial number
| Issuer | Stadt Lötzen (City of Lötzen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The heading "Stadt Lötzen - Masuren" is set across the upper border, with the denomination numeral "50" repeated in each corner within circular guilloche cartouches. A central vignette presents three fish arranged vertically, the denomination written out in full below, and the entire composition is enclosed within decorative foliate borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | DAS SCHLOSS ZU LÖTZEN OSTPR. Dieser Schein verliert einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung seine Gültigkeit. Lötzen, den 1. Novbr. 1920 der Magistrat: (Translation: The Castle of Lötzen – East Prussia. This note loses its validity one month after public announcement. Lötzen, 1 November 1920, the Magistrate:) |
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Lötzen — now Giżycko in northeastern Poland — issued this Notgeld in the immediate aftermath of the July 1920 plebiscite that determined whether the southern districts of East Prussia would remain German or join the newly reconstituted Polish state. The vote went heavily for Germany, but the political anxiety surrounding that period drove municipalities throughout the region to issue emergency small-change notes as coin hoarding stripped everyday transactions bare.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau handled a substantial volume of East Prussian municipal Notgeld during this period, and the red serial number variant (814.1a) is catalogued separately from the black, indicating a distinct print run — not a mere ink substitution.