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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Oberlind (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a grey-green underprint of symmetrical vine and heart-leaf scrollwork filling the outer borders, with the year "1920" split across either side of a central octagonal vignette illustrating the Oberlind village church and its pointed steeple framed by trees, rendered in fine black-and-white line engraving. The denomination "50 Pfennig 50" is inscribed in red Fraktur across the upper field, while two facsimile manuscript signature lines — captioned "Der Bürgermeister:" and "Der Gemeinderat:" — appear below the central vignette above a red serial-number panel. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 1920 Der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
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Oberlind was a small industrial village in southern Thuringia — absorbed into the town of Sonneberg in 1923 — and this note is one of hundreds of municipal Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany in 1920 when chronic coin shortages made even low-denomination transactions difficult. The coins had been melted, hoarded, or simply worn out of circulation faster than the Reichsbank could replace them, leaving local governments to fill the gap with their own paper.
August Eichhorn printed for several Sonneberg-district issuers during this period, which means closely related notes from neighboring municipalities sometimes share the same basic typographic layout.