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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Oldesloe (City of Bad Oldesloe) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in shades of brown, pink, and black in an expressive Jugendstil manner. To the right, a bold silhouette of an elderly gentleman — identified as 'Der alte Justizrat' — wearing a tall top hat and holding a cane, stands in profile against a panoramic townscape of Bad Oldesloe with a prominent church spire rising at centre. To the left, the denomination '50 Pfennig' is rendered in large decorative Gothic lettering, with the issuing authority 'Notgeld der Stadt Bad Oldesloe' inscribed in the upper left corner. The artist's monogram 'O. KURZ' appears at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Bad Oldesloe Der alte Justizrat 50 Pfennig O. KURZ |
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Bad Oldesloe is a small market town in Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to issuing its own Notgeld during the postwar inflationary period when Reichsbank notes were either hoarded or physically unavailable in small denominations. Stadt issues of this kind were printed locally or through regional printers on whatever paper stock was at hand, which is why paper quality varies so dramatically across surviving examples — thin, brittle specimens are common, and edge fraying is endemic to the type.
The designer credit to O. Kurz is unusual enough to be worth noting; most municipal Notgeld of this class went unsigned.