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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Oldisleben (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green Notgeld note with a large vignette of a gnarled oak tree — captioned as the 300-year-old oak near Oldisleben — rendered in a loose illustrative style occupying the upper left. The denomination '50 Pfg' is printed in bold Gothic script at the lower right, alongside the issuing authority text and date 'd. 5. VIII. 1921.' A circular medallion at the lower left bears a haloed saint flanked by a church, a lamb, and the date split '15 75', evoking the town's historical seal. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIE GESCHLAGENEN BAUERN FLIEHEN IN D. STADT FRANKENHAUSEN DRUCK: KARL NAUMBURG S/KINDELBRÜCK. |
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Oldisleben is a small village on the Unstrut river in what was then the Prussian province of Saxony — not Thuringia in the strict administrative sense of 1921, though it sits in the cultural borderland. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920–21, Oldisleben issued its own emergency currency when the Reichsbank could not supply adequate small-denomination coin. Karl Naumburg in Kindelbrück was a local commercial printer, not a specialist banknote producer, which is exactly what you'd expect from a parish-level issuer stretching to cover tram fares and baker's change.