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50 Pfennig Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde
| Issuer | Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde, Oldenburg |
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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 dominated by a central oval vignette of a German Shepherd dog shown in black silhouette with a red cross medallion at its chest, flanked by two smaller silhouette scenes: at left, a seated figure with a guide dog, and at right, a blind war veteran being led by a dog. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in ornamental cartouches at both upper corners, with the bold Gothic title 'Deutscher Führhund für Kriegs-Blinde' across the top. Two text panels in the lower portion carry the authorization and redemption clauses, with the place and date 'Oldenburg i/O. 1921' centered below the main vignette; the printer's name 'GERHARD STALLING, OLDENBURG.' is printed along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig 50 Pfennig EIN TREUER WEGWEISER. |
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The Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde — the German Red Cross dog training association — was among the more unusual Notgeld issuers of the early Weimar inflation period. Organizations well outside the banking sector routinely issued emergency small-denomination scrip between 1919 and 1922 as coinage effectively vanished from circulation, and a charitable society dedicated to training medical service dogs was as entitled to do so as any municipality. Gerhard Stalling, the Oldenburg printer responsible for this note, was simultaneously one of the most prolific Notgeld printers in Lower Saxony.
Stalling is better known today as the publisher who, in 1928, first released Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues.