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75 Pfennigs Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Verkehrsverein Lüneburg (City of Lüneburg Notgeld, Prussian Province of Hanover) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 105 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a landscape view of the old city wall ruins of Lüneburg, captioned 'RESTE DER ALTEN STADTMAUER', printed in brown and yellow on cream paper. Denomination '75 Pf.' appears in upper corners within rectangular panels, flanked by ornate acanthus scroll borders. Lower band carries the inscription commemorating 1,000 years of the salt spring, with issuer and date noted in lower right panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lüneburgs Z. HENNEBERG KLAGT SEINEN SOHN GILBRECHT AN Sülfmeisterzeit 1400 1500 75 pf |
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Lüneburg's Verkehrsverein — literally a "traffic association," functioning more as a local commerce and tourism promotion body — issued this note during the peak of Germany's municipal Notgeld craze, when hundreds of towns printed small-denomination scrip as much for collector revenue as for any genuine exchange need. By 1921, the speculative Notgeld market had become so profitable that many series were printed in quantities far exceeding local circulation requirements, then sold directly to collectors at a premium.
Gustav Peters was a local Lüneburg printer, not a specialist security printer, which is worth noting when assessing impression quality across surviving examples.