Catalog
50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Oldenburg in Holstein (City of Oldenburg in Holstein) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels: the left panel carries a black silhouette of a robed bishop holding a crozier beside a cross, with an orange denomination roundel '50' at its base; the central panel presents a colour vignette of a red-roofed church with an onion-domed tower set among trees and a wrought-iron cemetery fence; the right panel shows a black silhouette of a bell-ringer pulling a rope beside a large church bell, again with a '50' roundel below. A two-line Low German verse runs along the bottom margin, and the inscriptions 'NOTGELD' and 'OLDENBURG i.H.' appear in the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD OLDENBURG i.H. EN-BISCHOF-HARR-SIN-STOHL-HIER-STAHN-NAHER-EN-PROPST-HÜT'N-PASTUR DUNN-HÜR-MAN-VEELE-KLOCKEN-GAHN-NU-IST-MAN-ÊN-FOR-FEST-UN-TRUR |
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Oldenburg in Holstein — not to be confused with the far larger Duchy of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony — issued notgeld during the post-WWI currency chaos that gripped German municipalities from 1918 onward. These small city-issued emergency notes filled the void left by a shortage of official small-denomination coinage, which had largely vanished from circulation as metal values exceeded face values and hoarding accelerated.
H. Brügge is credited as designer, which is unusual enough to note — most notgeld of this type was produced anonymously or credited only to the printing house.