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25 Pfennig Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein
| Issuer | Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein Oberdorla |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | Cream-coloured note printed in black within a decorative border matching the obverse, enclosing a six-line verse in Gothic (Fraktur) blackletter type praising the Vogtei region and referencing the emergency currency issue. The initials 'H. E.' appear in the lower-right corner, attributing the verse to its author. Ghosted show-through of the obverse clover vignettes and denomination numerals is visible through the thin paper stock. |
| Reverse lettering | Das schönste Plätzchen auf der Welt ist die Vogtei unstreitig, wo man der Not in kleinem Geld gesteuert hat frühzeitig. Dies Scheinchen, d'rauf das Kleeblatt grünt, hat hier in schwerer Zeit gedient zum Austausch gegenseitig. H. E. |
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Oberdorla is a village in Thuringia with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred at the time of issue. That a local agricultural cooperative — a Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein, essentially a rural credit union of the Raiffeisen type — was printing its own emergency currency in 1918 speaks directly to how completely the German small-change shortage had atomized monetary life by the final year of the war. Coin metal had long since been requisitioned, and central authorities lacked both the capacity and the interest to supply fractional notes to communities this small.
Notgeld at this scale was often printed by a local stationer or printer, with no meaningful anti-counterfeiting provisions — the community itself was the only enforcement mechanism.