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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Orlamünde (City of Orlamünde), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Gutschein der Stadt Orlamünde i. Thür. Die Gültigkeit erlischt einen Monat nach Aufruf 1194 Orlamünde i. Thür. den 2. Sept. 1921. Der Stadtrat. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is occupied entirely by a polychrome pictorial vignette in a semi-illustrative engraving style, signed 'Gebr. Sporleder' in the upper left corner. The central scene presents the Kemnate (keep) of Orlamünde castle with its arched Burgtor (castle gate) set amid lush foliage and conifers under a pale sky. To the right, a full-length figure of a medieval knight in plate armour stands holding a sword and a heraldic shield bearing the Orlamünde lion. A caption in Gothic script runs along the lower border. |
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Orlamünde was a tiny Thuringian town of a few thousand residents when it joined the wave of municipal Notgeld issuances that swept Germany between 1920 and 1922. These small-denomination emergency notes were technically issued to relieve a genuine coin shortage, but by 1921 the collector market had taken over — many municipalities, Orlamünde among them, issued series in sets clearly designed for philatelic sale rather than checkout-counter use. Gebr. Sporleder, a regional printer, handled a substantial volume of this Thuringian municipal work.
Whether this particular note saw genuine commercial circulation or went straight into collector albums is the real question with any 1921 Notgeld of this type.