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50 Pfennig Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Verkehrsverein Lüneburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 105 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown and vivid orange-red on cream paper, retaining the same ornate acanthus-scroll border design as the obverse but executed in contrasting colours. The central vignette, again bearing the Krenke signature, illustrates a medieval scene captioned "GILBRECHTS HEIMKEHR MIT TIMMO NACH LÜNEBURG", showing two figures in period dress beneath a stone archway. The denomination "50 pf" appears in bold numerals within orange circular cartouches at left and right, and the lower panel carries the inscription "Sülfmeisterzeit 1400–1500" in decorative script. |
| Reverse lettering | Lüneburgs GILBRECHTS HEIMKEHR MIT TIMMO NACH LÜNEBURG Sülfmeisterzeit 1400 1500 50 pf |
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Verkehrsverein Lüneburg was a local tourism and commerce association, not a bank — its authority to issue notgeld derived entirely from the practical collapse of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage in the early Weimar period, when municipalities and civic bodies filled the gap however they could. Gustav Peters was a Lüneburg-based printer, meaning this note was conceived, designed, and produced entirely within the town it was meant to circulate.
P. Krenke's designer credit is unusually specific for notgeld of this type, where printer and designer were often the same party or went unrecorded.