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50 Pfennig Ohlau
| Issuer | Magistrat zu Ohlau |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld voucher with all text printed in red letterpress in Gothic Fraktur script. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is set in large display type at centre, above a guarantee clause naming the municipality of Ohlau and wartime year 1918. A serial number in bold Gothic numerals occupies the lower left, accompanied by a manuscript signature to its right. |
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| Reverse lettering | MAGISTRAT ZU OHLAU |
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Ohlau (now Oława in southwestern Poland) was a Silesian market town of modest size when the Magistrat authorized this Notgeld issue in 1918. The note belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency money prompted by wartime coin hoarding — small-denomination metal currency had effectively disappeared from circulation across Germany by late 1917, forcing local authorities to print their own substitutes whether or not they had any particular expertise in doing so.
Silesian municipal Notgeld from this period was produced by a range of local printers with uneven results, and quality control was rarely a priority when the immediate need was simply to make change.