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10 Pfennig Vorschuß- und Sparverein
| Issuer | Vorschuß- und Sparverein zu Ostheim v. d. Rhön |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegs-Notgeld 10 Zehn Pfennig 10 zahlen wir dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines ohne Legitimations-Prüfung. Pf. Pf. Ostheim v. d. Rhön, den 1. November 1918. Vorschuß- u. Sparverein zu Ostheim v. d. Rhön eingetragene Genossenschaft mit unbeschränkter Haftpflicht. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Vereins zur Einlösung bei unserer Kasse vorgelegt wird. Selmar Bayer, Berlin SO. 36. |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a central oval vignette enclosed within a dense engine-turned guilloche frame of concentric scalloped rings. The vignette presents a landscape view of the Lichtenburg castle rising above wooded terrain, with the caption 'Lichtenburg' lettered above the image. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each corner, with the lower corner numerals inverted, set against a plain ruled border. |
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Ostheim vor der Rhön is a small Franconian market town, and its Vorschuß- und Sparverein — a cooperative lending and savings association — was exactly the kind of local institution that resorted to privately printed emergency currency during the coin shortages of 1917–18. These Kleingeldersatz notes filled the gap left by hoarded and melted metal coinage, issued under the broad wartime permissions that allowed non-bank entities to circulate small-denomination paper.
Selmar Bayer of Berlin handled a substantial volume of Notgeld printing for minor issuers across Germany during this period. The association's notes were almost certainly redeemed and destroyed quickly once metal coinage returned to circulation after the armistice.