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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Oldenburg in Holstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and green notgeld printed on white paper, with a decorative outer border bearing the repeated inscription OLDENBURG IN HOLSTEIN along the top and bottom edges and OGED along the lateral sides. A central semicircular vignette in blue carries the text GUTSCHEIN DER STADT OLDENBURG HOLSTEIN arched above the large numeral 25, with the validity clause DIESER SCHEIN IST GÜLTIG BIS 1 JAN 1922 in a circular band; flanking vignettes depict cattails on the left and a wheat sheaf on the right. The lower portion carries a text panel with redemption conditions and a facsimile signature of Der Magistrat, with the printer's imprint JULIUS SIMONSEN, OLDENBURG (HOLST) along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | OLDENBURG IN HOLSTEIN GUTSCHEIN DER STADT OLDENBURG HOLSTEIN DIESER SCHEIN IST GÜLTIG BIS 1 JAN 1922 25 PFENNIG Und wird bis zu dem Zeitpunkt vom unserer Stadtkasse eingelöst Der Magistrat JULIUS SIMONSEN, OLDENBURG (HOLST) |
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Oldenburg in Holstein — not to be confused with the much larger city of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony — was a small Schleswig-Holstein town issuing its own emergency paper during the Kleingeldnot of the early Weimar years. The chronic small-change shortage that followed the First World War forced hundreds of German municipalities to commission local printers for notgeld, and Julius Simonsen, operating right in the same town, was the logical choice here. That local production arrangement is relatively uncommon — many comparable municipalities sent their orders to specialist printers in Hamburg or Berlin.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-documented series, but individual Simonsen-printed pieces remain modestly scarce outside regional collections.