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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Oberlind (Saxe-Meiningen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Oberlind S.-M. Notgeld in ernster Zeit Fünfzig 1919 Pfennig Der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm ochre, olive-green, and red tones, with the four corners each bearing the denomination inscription in Gothic blackletter script within decorative foliate panels. The central vignette, framed by a large stone archway rendered in letterpress, offers a view through an arched gateway toward a church steeple with trees lining the approach; the numeral '50' appears in red within green-bordered cartouches at left and right centre. |
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Oberlind was a small industrial village in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen — by 1919, the duchy itself had ceased to exist, swept away by the November Revolution of 1918. The municipality issued this note as Notgeld, the emergency small-change scrip that flooded Germany when coins vanished from circulation during and after the First World War. Thousands of municipalities did the same, but Oberlind's issues are among the more obscure, produced by a community with no banking infrastructure of its own.
The 50 Pfennig denomination was the workhorse of local Notgeld circulation — ubiquitous enough that most examples were heavily used before redemption.