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50 Pfennig Landeskriegerverband
| Issuer | Landeskrieger-Verband Lübeck |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 98.9 × 70.1 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a bold orange letterpress title banner at top reading the note's purpose and issuing occasion, flanked by large orange numerals '50' at left and the abbreviation 'Pfg' at right. The central vignette presents a pen-and-ink style street scene of the Lübeck Zeughaus (arsenal) with a silhouetted procession of soldiers, cannons, horse-drawn carriages, and mounted figures in the foreground. A text panel at the bottom contains two Low German quatrains, inscriptions attributed to old Lübeck cannon mottos, with the printer's imprint 'GEBRÜDER BORCHERS G.M.B.H. LÜBECK' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange and olive-green tones, with the denomination '50 Wechselschein Pfg' in large orange script across the top. The central vignette presents a detailed letterpress illustration of the Kyffhäuser-Denkmal monument set within its landscaped grounds. Portrait vignettes of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Josias von Heeringen appear in the upper left and upper right corners respectively, each captioned with their names and a patriotic German motto. A lengthy text panel at the bottom states the conditions of validity, redeemability at the Commerz-Bank in Lübeck, and identifies the issuer as Der Landeskrieger-Verband Lübeck. |
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The Landeskrieger-Verband Lübeck was a veterans' organization representing former soldiers of the Free and Hanseatic City — one of Germany's smallest sovereign states, which maintained its own distinct civic institutions well into the Weimar period. This note belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz issued across Germany from 1919 onward, when coin shortages created a vacuum that municipalities, associations, and private bodies rushed to fill. Veterans' groups issuing their own emergency currency is unusual enough to warrant attention; most Notgeld came from town councils or merchants' associations, not military fraternal bodies.
Gebrüder Borchers was a local Lübeck printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which accounts for the relatively modest production quality typical of this series.