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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Laage (City of Laage) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Lilac-toned notgeld note with a red and dark blue double-line border frame. At centre, a shield-shaped vignette contains the city arms of Laage — a frontal ox head in dark blue with red nostrils and a red fleur-de-lis crown above — rendered in a bold graphic style. Below the vignette, a four-line Low German verse in Fraktur script occupies the lower half of the face, followed by validity text and manuscript signatures of city officials at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 75 Pf. NOTGELD LAAGE Willst Du för dit Geld Deckung säuben, Denn möst Du nah den'n Dod noch späuken. Gültig bis zum 1. Januar 1924; zahlbar an eigene Ordre nach Sicht. Der Rat der Stadt Laage: Der Stadtverordnetenvorsteher: |
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Laage is a small town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued Notgeld during the inflationary crisis years of the early 1920s when the Reichsbank could not produce small-denomination coinage fast enough to meet demand. These municipal emergency notes were a practical stopgap, not an official monetary instrument — the city simply printed what the economy required and redeemed them locally.
The DeNG reference places this within the second type of the Laage 75 Pfennig series, suggesting at least one earlier printing variant exists for comparison.