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25 Pfennig Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ober-Dorla (Municipality of Ober-Dorla) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld note printed in two colours: a green letterpress border of stylised floral and leaf ornaments frames the entire face, with a four-leaf clover vignette in the upper right and lower left corners. The denomination '25 Pfennig' appears in the upper left and lower right in green, while the central text 'NOTGELD / 25 Pfennig / Gemeinde / Ober-Dorla' is printed in large bold red-brown letterpress type. An oval blue official cancellation stamp is applied diagonally across the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD 25 Pfennig Gemeinde Ober-Dorla |
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Ober-Dorla is a small village in Thuringia, and this note originates from its local cooperative lending association — the Spar- und Darlehnskassen-Verein — rather than the municipality acting in a conventional fiscal capacity. Such cooperative-issued Kleingeld emerged during the acute small-change shortage of the early Weimar inflation period, when the Reichsbank's coin production could not keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The cooperative had a practical reason to issue fractional scrip: keeping local commercial transactions moving among members.
Association-backed Notgeld from villages this small survives in far lower quantities than town-issued equivalents, simply because fewer were printed.