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50 Pfennig Spar- und Leihkasse
| Issuer | Lütjenburger Spar- und Leihkasse |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFG. LÜTJENBURGER NOTGELD DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DER LÜTJENBURGER SPAR-U. LEIHKASSE IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN. ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT MIT DEM 1. NOV. 1921 LÜTJENBURGER SPAR-U. LEIHKASSE |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. De Bottermelkskrieg 1. Die Dänen kommen to Lüttenborg Ad. Eßich & Co., Oldenburg i. O. |
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Lütjenburger Spar- und Leihkasse was a small savings and lending cooperative in Lütjenburg, a market town in Holstein. Notes like this one were issued under the broad Notgeld provisions that allowed German municipalities and local institutions to print emergency fractional currency during the inflationary pressures of 1921, when Reichsbank coin and small-denomination paper had effectively vanished from everyday transactions through hoarding and melting.
Ad. Eßich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a considerable volume of provincial Notgeld work during this period, supplying dozens of smaller issuers across northern Germany with competently printed but unambitious designs.