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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Orlamünde (Thuringia), City Council |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Gutschein der Stadt Orlamünde i. Thür. / Die Gültigkeit erlischt einen Monat nach Aufruf / 001493 / Orlamünde i. Thür. den 2. Sept. 1921. Der Stadtrat. |
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| Reverse lettering | Schlacht bei Saalfeld 10.10.1806 Die „weiße Frau v. Orlamünde” erscheint dem Prinzen Louis Ferdinand v. Preußen. |
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Orlamünde is a small town on the Saale river in Thuringia, better known to historians for its medieval countship than for its finances. This note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Kleingeldscheine issued across Germany during the postwar coin shortage of 1920–1921, when metal coinage had largely vanished from everyday commerce and even minor municipalities were authorized to print fractional substitutes. Cawar, based in Halle an der Saale, was a regional printer that handled a number of these small Thuringian emergency issues.
The Schmidt signature identifies the issuing authority as the Stadtrat — the city council acting collectively, not a named mayor or treasurer.