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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Oberlind (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 89 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note printed in blue, red-brown, and black. The central vignette presents a panoramic aerial view of Oberlind's southern quarter (captioned 'Oberlind: südlicher Teil:'), rendered in a detailed woodcut-style illustration with fields, a winding road, rooftops, and a church steeple set against a hilly horizon. The denomination '50' appears in large Gothic script on both lateral borders, with the issuing authority title 'Notgeld Oberlind Sm' across the top in red Fraktur lettering. Below the vignette, the date '1921' appears in red numerals flanked by two manuscript signatures above the printed designations 'Der Bürgermeister:' and 'Der Gemeinderat:'; the artist's name 'Karl Staudinger' is printed in small type at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kanzel in Oberlind Luther selbst führte 1525 den ersten evangelischen geistlichen hier ein. Pf 50 Pf Druck August Eichhorn, Sonneberg. |
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Oberlind was a small industrial village in the Sonneberg district, and its 1921 notgeld issue was one of hundreds of hyperinflation-era municipal scrip notes printed regionally when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The printer, August Eichhorn of Sonneberg, handled numerous local commissions of this type — a practical arrangement that kept design and production costs within reach of minor municipalities. Karl Staudinger's involvement as designer is the most notable element here; his name appears across several Thuringian notgeld issues from this period.
Sonneberg's proximity to Oberlind made the logistics straightforward — these notes likely moved from press to circulation within days of issue.