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90 Pfennig Heimatbund Lohengau
| Issuer | Heimatbund Lohengau, Soltau |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely executed landscape vignette of the town of Soltau, with a winding river or path leading through heath and woodland toward a church steeple and town silhouette in the distance, rendered in a detailed linear illustrative style with pink and olive tones. At lower centre, the town's heraldic shield is set into the landscape composition, signed by the artist W. Kleinshmidt at lower right. The denomination '90 PF' appears in the upper corners within decorative leaf-border cartouches, and the word 'Soltau' is inscribed in Gothic script at the top centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Soltau 90 PF Das Herz der Heide Böhmetal W. Kleinshmidt |
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Lohengau is the medieval poetic name for the region around Soltau in Lower Saxony — its use here is deliberate local romanticism, characteristic of the Heimatbund movement's broader project of tying emergency currency to regional identity during the Weimar inflation years. The Heimatbund Lohengau was a cultural-patriotic association, not a bank or municipality, which makes this issue unusual: most Notgeld of this period was authorized by towns, districts, or savings institutions.
The 90-Pfennig denomination is an odd one — probably dictated by a specific local pricing need rather than any monetary standard.