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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Oberlind (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette occupies most of the face, presenting a panoramic bird's-eye view of Oberlind's southern quarter — captioned 'Oberlind: Südlicher Teil' — rendered in a multi-colour lithographic style with rolling fields, a winding road, and a church spire rising above the rooftops against a light blue sky. The denomination '50' appears in large Gothic script on both lateral borders alongside the word 'Pfennig' arranged vertically in red Fraktur lettering. Below the vignette, the year '1921' is printed in red numerals flanked by two facsimile manuscript signatures above the printed titles 'Der Bürgermeister' and 'Der Gemeinderat', with the artist's name 'Karl Staudinger' noted beneath the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed colour lithographic street-scene vignette of the 'Goore Brücke', a local landmark in Oberlind, rendered from street level with half-timbered and gabled buildings flanking a cobbled path leading to a domed public building set amid trees. The lateral borders carry the denomination numeral '50' in large green figures alongside interlaced 'Pf' monograms in salmon-pink tones. The printer's imprint 'Druck August Eichhorn. Sonneberg' appears in small Fraktur script below the lower border. |
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Oberlind is a small village that was absorbed into the town of Sonneberg in 1922 — meaning this note was issued just one year before the municipality that authorized it ceased to exist as a separate administrative entity. The timing is typical of the German Kleingeldersatz boom of 1921, when hundreds of minor Thuringian communities rushed to fill the coin shortage with locally printed Notgeld before federal stabilization efforts cut off the practice.
August Eichhorn was a Sonneberg commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm. Staudinger's design work for such issues tends toward regional folk imagery, though the execution quality varied by job.