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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Oldisleben (Municipality of Oldisleben, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a line-art vignette of the Zuckerfabrik (sugar factory) Oldisleben across the upper left, rendered in a detailed illustrative style with a tall chimney stack, industrial buildings, surrounding trees and hills. A decorative scroll element sweeps diagonally across the centre, and to the lower left a circular medallion bears a standing saintly figure with the date split 15–75. The denomination '50 Pfs' is set in bold Gothic type to the right, with the issuing authority text and date below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Münzer-Notgeld von Oldisleben a. Kyffh. 50 Pfs zahlt die Gemeindekasse von Oldisleben für diesen Notschein gültig bis 3 Monate nach Aufruf. Oldisleben, Der Gemeindevorstand b 5. VIII. 1921. Zuckerfabrik Oldisleben |
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Oldisleben is a small town in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, close to the Thuringian border, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to locally issued Notgeld during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar years. This 50 Pfennig piece belongs to the 1921 wave of such issues, when commodity shortages and unreliable coin supply left small towns printing their own emergency fractional currency as a practical stopgap.
The print date of 30 April 1945 recorded in this catalog entry almost certainly reflects a later administrative or archival annotation — the note itself is a 1921 issue, and Oldisleben's Notgeld series predates the Third Reich by more than a decade.