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75 Pfennig Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Verkehrsverein Lüneburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette, set within an oval frame, presents a detailed letterpress illustration of a historic Lüneburg courtyard known as "Roter Hahn," with figures in period dress on a cobblestone street flanked by timber-framed buildings. Decorative floral and foliate arabesques in gold and dark brown fill the left and right border panels, with the denomination "75 Pf." appearing in each upper corner against a light blue ground. A disclaimer text box occupies the lower left corner, while the issuer attribution appears in the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lüneburgs Sülfmeisterzeit 1400 1500 O. HENNEBERG VERLANGT VOM HERZOG DIE FEIERLICHE BESTÄTIGUNG DER ALTEN PRIVILEGIEN, UND WIRD ZUM RATSHERRN GEWÄHLT. 75 pf |
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Lüneburg's Verkehrsverein — a civic tourism and trade association, not a bank — issued this 75 Pfennig note during the notgeld peak of 1921, when Germany's small-change shortage had become severe enough that local clubs, municipalities, and merchants were effectively printing their own money. The Verkehrsverein had no formal monetary authority; the notes circulated on local trust alone. Gustav Peters, who printed this in Lüneburg itself, was a regional press rather than a specialist banknote printer, which shows in the production.