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75 Pfennig Künstlerverein St. Lucas
| Issuer | Künstlerverein St. Lucas, Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | HOCH ÜBER ZEIT U. FARBENKRACH STEHT ST. JOHANNIS STOLZES DACH KÜNSTLER-VEREIN ST. LUCAS MAGDEBURG |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜR DEN STADTSCHEIN GRÜN UND ROT KRIEGSTE WURST UND BUTTERBROT LUCAS-SCHEINE SIND NUR DUNST VOLLER HEITERKEIT UND KUNST |
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The Künstlerverein St. Lucas was an artists' association in Magdeburg, and like hundreds of German cultural and civic organizations in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute scrip — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. What makes St. Lucas notes genuinely interesting is that the issuer was not a municipality or a merchant guild but a fine arts body, meaning the design work was almost certainly done in-house rather than farmed out to a commercial printer's stock imagery. Whether that shows in the execution depends on the specific note.
Magdeburg's notgeld output from this period is well-documented but enormous in volume; St. Lucas pieces appear infrequently enough to suggest limited print runs.