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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Oebisfelde-Kaltendorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld printed on white paper, with a decorative lace-style border enclosing a central municipal coat of arms vignette at top. The issuer name is set in bold serif type across the centre, with the denomination numeral in large display type flanked by the word "Pfennig" and preceded by "Gutschein über". Denomination counters reading "50 Pfg" occupy all four corners. A serial control number is printed in black at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Oebisfelde-Kaltendorf Gutschein über 50 Pfennig KONTROLL-NUMMER |
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Oebisfelde was a small market town in the Magdeburg district, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1920, it resorted to printing its own emergency currency when chronic coin shortages made everyday commerce nearly impossible. The Neues Tageblatt — the local newspaper — served as the printer, a common arrangement in smaller towns where the press was the only facility capable of producing passable currency in quantity.
Notgeld printed by provincial newspapers tends to show uneven ink coverage and variable registration, artifacts worth examining on any example from this issuer.