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50 Pfennig Ohlau
| Issuer | Stadt Ohlau (City of Ohlau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red, grey, and black on white Büttenpapier, the obverse is enclosed within a bold black decorative border of interlocking wave and scroll motifs. The left field carries a red underprint overlaid with a black skeleton figure brandishing a scythe, accompanied by poetic verse in Fraktur script, with the denomination tablet '50 PFg' positioned at the upper-left corner on a grey ground. The right field presents a grey silhouette vignette of the Ohlau church tower with radiating sunbeams and a crowing cockerel in the foreground, with the inscriptions 'NOTGELD' and 'OHLAU' in stylized lettering and the designer's name 'Dittert' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Das ärgert den Seydlitz · Nimmt Pistolen von der Wand · zielt hinüber mit · sichrer Hand · Es spritzt der Kalk · So war's im Frieden! |
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Ohlau — now Oława in southwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Silesian town when it issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years. Municipal and commercial Notgeld of this period was printed in enormous variety, but the choice of Büttenpapier sets this issue apart from the cheap wood-pulp stock used by most municipalities. Laid paper of this type was typically reserved for quality printing work, and its use here was likely a deliberate signal of civic seriousness.
J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu produced a substantial volume of Notgeld for municipalities across Germany during this period. Designer Dittert is credited on the issue but remains otherwise obscure in the literature.