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90 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberhof in Thüringen (Municipality of Oberhof, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Leipzig, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set against a dark background with a bold decorative border in pink and green. At centre, a radiant starburst vignette frames an oval seal of the Herzoglicher Golf Klub Oberhof i. Thür., surmounted by a ducal crown in orange and gold; flanking the central vignette on both sides are yellow vignettes of golf bags with clubs. The denomination '90 PF.' appears in red within black diamond cartouches at lower left and right, with the serial number and issue date inscribed in the lower centre panel alongside the facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand. |
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| Reverse lettering | GOLFSPIELER DES HERZOGL. GOLF-KLUBS. |
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Oberhof was already an established winter resort town by 1922, and the Gemeinde's decision to issue notgeld in an unusual 90-Pfennig denomination — bypassing the far more common 25, 50, and 75 Pfennig values — suggests these were conceived primarily as collector-targeted Serienscheine rather than functional emergency currency. The hyperinflationary spiral of 1922 made small-denomination paper increasingly pointless for actual commerce, and resort municipalities across Thuringia were among the most aggressive in exploiting collector demand for regional notgeld issues.
Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. of Leipzig were chromolithographers by trade, responsible for high-quality illustrated notgeld across dozens of municipalities. The signature of Rich. Langenhan identifies the issuing official, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal treasurer.