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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Oldenburg in Holstein (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1922 |
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| Reverse description | Blue-ground vignette occupying the upper three-quarters of the note, executed in a hand-drawn illustrative style signed 'W. Johannsen 21', showing the Landratsamt (district office) building in Oldenburg in Holstein set behind a row of bare-branched trees in a wintry street scene rendered in black line work with salmon-orange colour wash on the architecture. The denomination numerals '50' appear in the upper corners, and a two-line Low German verse in bold Gothic type runs across the lower panel within the border. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Landratsamt Stadt Oldenborg, de is man lütt, doch de hier wahnt, de hebbt väl Grütt. Se sähn: Wenn wi denn Landrat harrn, denn schöt wi bald wolln Grotstadt warrn. Druck: C. Fränckel Nchfg. C. Will, Oldenburg i.H. |
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Oldenburg in Holstein was a small market town — population under five thousand in 1921 — and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it turned to local printers when the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination currency a practical necessity rather than a civic ambition. The Magistrat's decision to commission W. Johannsen as designer and print through C. Fränckel Nchfg. C. Will kept the entire production within the town itself, which was unusual even among Notgeld issues of this period, where outside lithographers more often won the work.
C. Will's successor firm handled a range of local commercial printing; this was not a specialist banknote house, and the note's production values reflect that.