10 Pfennig Vorschuß- und Sparverein

Ostheim vor der Rhön is a small Franconian town that in 1918 found itself, like hundreds of similar communities, issuing its own emergency fractional currency after coins were systematically withdrawn from circulation for metal. The issuer here is a local savings and credit cooperative — a Vorschuß- und Sparverein — rather than a municipality or chamber of commerce, which makes this note slightly unusual among Notgeld of the period; most institutional issuers of this type were civic bodies.

Keyßner'sche Hofbuchdruckerei in Meiningen produced a significant volume of Thuringian and Franconian Notgeld in 1917–18, typically working to modest but competent letterpress standards.