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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Orsoy (City of Orsoy) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three horizontal registers with a tan and black colour scheme. At upper left, a diamond-shaped guilloche panel carries the denomination inscription 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIG' around the numeral '50'; at upper right, an octagonal panel bears the Latin municipal seal 'SIGILLUM OPPIDI ORSOYENSIS' enclosing three horse heads above a town gate. The central vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of the Rathaus (town hall) of Orsoy, labelled above the arch. The lower register contains the redemption text, the date 'Orsoy, den 1.5.1921', the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature, the series designation 'SERIE A', and a red serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ORSOY FÜNFZIG PFENNIG 50 SIGILLUM OPPIDI ORSOYENSIS Rathaus Dieser Schein wird von der Stadtkasse Orsoy eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Aufkündigung in der Orsoyer Zeitung. Der Bürgermeister: Orsoy, den 1.5.1921 SERIE A |
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Orsoy is a small Rhine town — today absorbed into Rheinberg — that like hundreds of other German municipalities resorted to issuing its own emergency currency during the postwar coin shortage. The Pfennigmangel of 1919–1922 was acute enough that towns with populations in the low thousands were commissioning private printers to produce legal-tender substitutes. Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren were among the more prolific suppliers of this Notgeld work, handling orders for municipalities across the Rhineland.
The reference suffix variants (1a-3/3 and 1a-2/3) suggest this note exists in fractional print-run subsets, likely distinguished by serial number blocks or minor typographic differences rather than substantive redesign.