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1/2 Mark Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein
| Issuer | Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein Oberdorla |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears an unadorned double-rule rectangular border with fine vertical line fillets along the top and bottom edges and squared corner ornaments, all printed in dark brown on cream paper. The entire field is occupied by an eight-line poem in black-letter (Fraktur) calligraphy referencing the Thuringian Vogtei and the three-leaf clover motif on the obverse, attributed to the initials 'H. E.' below the final line. The year '1918' is centred in the lower border band. |
| Reverse lettering | Wer jemals im Thüringerland Geweilet oder kam vorbei, Dem sind auch sicherlich bekannt Drei Dörfer, bildend die Vogtei. Dreigliedrig drum als Wappen dient für dieses kleine Stückchen Welt Ein Kleeblatt, das umseitig grünt Auf unserm schlichten Kriegsnotgeld. H. E. 1918 |
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Oberdorla is a small village in Thuringia, and the Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein that issued this note was a rural cooperative savings and loan association — exactly the kind of local institution that flooded Germany with Notgeld from 1914 onward as small change became impossible to find. By 1918, coin hoarding and metal shortages had emptied tills across the country, and thousands of municipalities, firms, and cooperatives printed their own fractional emergency notes to keep commerce moving at the village level.
Half-mark denominations from minor cooperative issuers in Thuringia survive in far smaller quantities than town-issued Notgeld, simply because fewer were printed and redemption records were rarely kept.