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60 Pfennig Heimatbund Lohengau
| Issuer | Heimatbund Lohengau, Soltau |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown, green, and ochre tones on a cream ground, with a decorative timber-frame border incorporating diagonal ribbon banners naming towns of the Lüneburger Heide region. The central vignette presents a schematic map of the heath with town names and connecting routes, overlaid by a rearing white horse as a regional emblem, flanked on the left by a shepherd with his flock and on the right by tall juniper trees and heath landscape. Below the map, a circular medallion portrait of writer Hermann Löns (1866–1914) is set within an arch, with the denomination "60 PFENNIGE" in cartouches at lower left and right, and multi-line Low German issuing text with three manuscript signatures along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | Lüneburger Heide Hermann Löns 1866 1914 Düsseldaolgeldschier von'n Heimatbund Lohengau, för den du di in'n Lüneborgsen för 60 Penn wat köpen kannst, ward bit to'n End 1921 inlöst von de Westholsteinische Bank, Abteilung Soltau. Urgäven in soltau on Lons sin Dodesbag. 60 PFENNIGE |
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Lohengau was a regional cultural association — a Heimatbund — rooted in the Heathland district around Soltau in Lower Saxony. In 1921, Germany's acute small-change shortage had become so severe that civic organizations, merchants, and even sports clubs were issuing their own Notgeld, and the Heimatbund was no exception. The denomination of 60 Pfennig is slightly unusual; most series gravitated toward round values or standard 25/50 Pfennig increments.
W. Kleinschmidt designed the note, though little is recorded about this particular artist beyond regional Notgeld commissions of the period.