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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Orlamünde (City Council of Orlamünde), Saxe-Altenburg |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | Schneider & Co., Altenburg, Saxe-Altenburg |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper with a fine crosshatch guilloche underprint in pale brown. A central oval vignette in brown and gold bears the denomination '50 Pfennig 50' in bold blackletter script, flanked by laurel sprays surmounted by crowns; above the oval, the text 'der Stadt Orlamünde' and below 'Naschhausen, S.-A.' The upper-left corner carries the circular municipal seal of Orlamünde in gold and black, while a manuscript signature of the issuing authority appears at the foot, above the legend 'Der Stadtrat zu Orlamünde S.A.' Anti-counterfeiting warnings appear in small type at the lower left and right margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird an den Kassen der Stadt Orlamünde jederzeit in Zahlung genommen. Ausgegeben im 50 Pfennig 50 Kriegsjahr 1917. Nur gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1919. SCHNEIDER & Co. ALTENBURG, S.A. |
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Orlamünde is a small Thuringian town with a population that barely crested a thousand in the early twentieth century — which makes the existence of a locally-issued Notgeld note entirely typical of 1917 Germany, when the wartime coin shortage forced even the most minor municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. What matters here is the printer: Schneider & Co. of Altenburg was one of the more prolific small-press producers of Saxe-Altenburg Notgeld, handling issues for numerous surrounding communities simultaneously.
The Gra#O24.1c designation indicates a variant within the O24 series, suggesting at least minor printing or paper differences from related issues — worth checking against the O24.1a and O24.1b when attributing.