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50 Pfennig Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer Oldenburg (Chamber of Commerce, Oldenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a bold red, teal, and black geometric border incorporating the denomination '50 PFG' repeated vertically on both lateral margins and 'PFENNIG' along the lower panel. A central vignette in the upper portion bears the heraldic coat of arms of Oldenburg — a crowned shield flanked by two rampant lions — set above a decorative ribbon cartouche. Below the vignette, a six-line Gothic-script text block states the note's validity across the State of Oldenburg and acceptance by all public cashiers, followed by two manuscript signatures and the date '1-9-2-1'. The issuer name 'HANDELSKAMMER OLDENBURG' appears in the top and bottom horizontal bands, with the printer's imprint 'GERHARD STALLING/OLDENBURG' at the very foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown, red, and grey tones on a tan paper ground, the reverse centres on a woodcut-style vignette of Graf Anton Günther of Oldenburg mounted on a prancing horse, his name inscribed beside the figure. Flanking the central panel are diagonal ribbon banners bearing a patriotic verse in Gothic blackletter script, arranged symmetrically left and right. The outer border is rendered in a scalloped guilloche pattern in grey, framing the entire composition. |
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Oldenburg's Chamber of Commerce resorted to issuing its own emergency currency in 1921 as the Reichsbank's supply of small-denomination coins and notes failed to keep pace with postwar inflation and hoarding. This kind of Notgeld — chamber-issued rather than municipal — placed legal and practical accountability on a commercial body rather than a local government, an arrangement that suited the decentralized character of the Weimar emergency currency system.
Gerhard Stalling, the Oldenburg printer responsible for this note, was a substantial regional house with deep roots in the city. The fact that printing and issuance both originated in Oldenburg makes this a genuinely local production, not a contracted job farmed out to Berlin or Leipzig.