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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Oberdorla, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | A small-format German Notgeld note issued by the municipality of Oberdorla in 1919, bearing the denomination 1/2 Mark within a simply composed typographic layout typical of wartime emergency currency. The face value and issuing authority are stated in letterpress text, with minimal decorative elements consistent with the austere production standards of municipal Kleingeldersatz notes of the period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries standard municipal Notgeld text affirming the note's validity and terms of redemption, printed in a plain letterpress format without pictorial vignettes, consistent with the utilitarian character of small-denomination German emergency currency issued in 1919. |
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Oberdorla is a village in Thuringia — small enough that its wartime and postwar notgeld issues are curiosities of hyper-local administration rather than regional monetary policy. The 1919 half-Mark denomination places this squarely in the early Weimar notgeld wave, when small municipalities across Germany were filling the coin shortage with paper scrip of their own devising, often printed in tiny runs by local printers with no particular oversight.
Half-Mark pieces are less common than the 1- and 2-Mark denominations favored by larger issuers, and Oberdorla's output was never large to begin with.