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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Oranienbaum |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a street view leading to the Oranienbaum town church with a steeple, framed by a Gothic arch, flanked by two arched side panels each containing an orange tree in fruit atop a sculptural pedestal. Municipal heraldic shields appear at upper left and upper right. The denomination '50 PFENNIG 50' is printed in large red Gothic lettering across the top, with 'NOTGELD DER STADT ORANIENBAUM' in bold black across the foot. Redemption text and issue details, including the designer's name 'Entwurf: H. Schiebel' and issue date, appear in smaller script across the upper register. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fürst Leopold v. Anhalt d. Alte Dessauer. Die Stadt Oranienbaum verdankt ihm die Fortsetzung u. Vollendung d. Gründungswerkes seiner Mutter, d. Fürstin Henriette Kath. v. Oranien, der Gründerin d. Stadt. Er ist d. Erbauer der großen Stadtkirche. So leben - wir so leben - wir so leben wir alle Tage als die allertreuen Grenadiere - PANIE! - (Translation: Prince Leopold of Anhalt, the Old Dessauer. The city of Oranienbaum owes him the continuation and completion of the founding work of his mother, Princess Henriette Katharina of Orange, founder of the city. He is the builder of the great town church. / So we live - so we live - so we live every day as the most loyal grenadiers - PANIE! -) |
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Oranienbaum was a small Anhalt town whose municipal authority, like hundreds of German local governments in 1922, issued its own emergency paper when Reichsbank notes became functionally useless amid accelerating inflation. These Magistrat-issued Kleingeldscheine were legal only within the issuing municipality — a fact printed directly on most of them as a reminder that the money stopped working at the town boundary.
H. Schiebel's involvement suggests local design and production, consistent with the Oranienbaum notes being a genuinely municipal effort rather than a bulk order placed with one of the major notgeld printers.