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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Oranienbaum (City of Oranienbaum) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned notgeld note with bold red denomination numerals '50' flanking the large red letterpress inscription 'PFENNIG' across the upper register. The central vignette presents a Gothic triple-arch composition: the middle arch frames a view of the Oranienbaum church and its surrounding trees, while the flanking arches each contain an ornamental orange tree atop a gilded urn pedestal. Heraldic shields appear between the arches, and the lower border carries the bold black inscription 'NOTGELD DER STADT ORANIENBAUM.' |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 EINLÖSBAR BEI DER STADTSPARKASSE D. MAGISTRAT: BIS 31. MAERZ 1922 AUSGEG. JUL 21 ENTWURF: H. SCHILDEI NOTGELD DER STADT ORANIENBAUM |
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Oranienbaum, a small town in Anhalt named after the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau, issued this Notgeld during the postwar inflationary spiral when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small denomination coinage and currency to meet everyday transactional demand. Hundreds of German municipalities did the same in 1921, but Oranienbaum leaned into its Dutch dynastic heritage harder than most — the series runs to at least eight design variants, an unusually large set for a town of its size.
Printed by a commercial firm in Elberfeld, the six-note core series plus variants were designed by H. Schildei, a local name with no broader documented profile in Notgeld printing circles.