Catalog
25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Oldenburg in Holstein (City of Oldenburg in Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Light blue note with a double-rule border enclosing a typographically arranged design on a pale ground. The issuing authority title "Stadt Oldenburg i. H." is set in bold block lettering across the top, beneath which a central panel carries the denomination "25 Pfennig 25" in large numerals flanking the value word, printed in black on an orange-brown underprint. Three successive text bands below state the validity clause and redemption obligation, closing with the italic inscription "Oldenburg in Holstein, 1. April 1921" and the manuscript signature of Der Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Oldenburg i. H. 25 Pfennig 25 Dieser Schein ist gültig bis zum 1. Jan. 1922 und wird bis zu dem Zeitpunkt von unserer Stadtkasse eingelöst. Oldenburg in Holstein, 1. April 1921 Der Magistrat: |
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Oldenburg in Holstein was a small market town of perhaps six thousand residents when it issued this note in 1921, part of the vast German Notgeld phenomenon that saw thousands of municipalities print their own fractional currency to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination coins. At the local level, printing was often awarded to whatever stationer or job printer was already serving the town — C. Fränckel Nchfg. C. Will was precisely that kind of firm, a local successor business rather than a specialist banknote printer.
Wilhelm Johannsen's involvement as designer is the detail worth noting. Local Notgeld frequently attracted regional artists and teachers, and the resulting designs vary wildly in sophistication from issue to issue.