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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Oldisleben (Municipality of Oldisleben, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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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 d. 5. VIII. 1921. Benediktinerkloster Oldisleben |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in two tones — brown for the central vignette and grey-green for the ornamental border. The central scene, set within an arched frame, depicts armed figures of Münzer's Bavarian peasant troops in the act of plundering the monastery of Oldisleben, with a church tower visible in the background amid trees. The elaborate surrounding border comprises symmetrical foliate scrollwork with stylized birds and a bearded grotesque mask at the top centre. A caption cartouche at the bottom names the scene, and the printer's imprint appears below the outer frame. |
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Oldisleben is a small town on the Unstrut river in Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it was forced into issuing its own fractional paper currency because the Reichsbank simply could not keep small-denomination coin in circulation fast enough. Rampant hoarding and rising metal values had gutted the coinage supply. The result was a chaotic national patchwork of local Notgeld, most of it cheaply produced and intended to last only weeks.
Karl Naumburg's press in Köndelbruck handled several such regional commissions. The DeNG reference suffix "1a-3/10" indicates this falls within a dated series variant, suggesting Oldisleben issued more than one print run — not unusual given how quickly early batches were exhausted.