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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Oldenburg in Holstein (City of Oldenburg in Holstein) |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER GUTSCHEIN DER STADT OLDENBURG IN HOLSTEIN IST GÜLTIG BIS 1. JAN. 1922 UND WIRD BIS ZU DEM ZEITPUNKT VON UNSERER STADTKASSE EINGELÖST. DER MAGISTRAT. 75 Pfennig |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in orange-red and black with a triple ruled frame enclosing three vertical panels. The central panel contains a detailed line-drawn vignette of the Oldenburg town hall (Rathaus) with its distinctive clock tower, flanked by adjacent townhouses rendered in orange-red; the artist's signature 'H. BRÜGGE' appears at lower right of this vignette. The left and right panels each carry a silhouette figure — a scribe or townsman at left and a night watchman with lantern and halberd at right — each accompanied by an orange-red circular denomination medallion reading '75'. A two-line inscription in Low German dialect runs along the bottom panel, with 'NOTGELD' and 'OLDENBURG i.H.' lettered in the upper corners. |
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Oldenburg in Holstein — a small coastal town in Schleswig-Holstein — issued this Notgeld during the inflationary emergency of the early 1920s, when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough low-denomination currency to keep local commerce moving. Municipal issues like this one were technically illegal tender beyond the issuing locality, which made redemption entirely dependent on the town's own financial standing.
H. Brügge is otherwise unattested in the major Notgeld design records — almost certainly a local commission rather than one of the specialist firms that produced Notgeld at scale for dozens of municipalities simultaneously.