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10 Pfennig Waller, Schlösser
| Issuer | Stadt Osterode am Harz (City of Osterode am Harz) |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a large stylised rose in pink and yellow tones set against an elaborate foliate scrollwork underprint in olive-green, flanked on either side by tall fir trees. The denomination numeral '10' appears in the upper left and upper right corners in gold, with the issuer's name 'Osterode a. H.' inscribed on a decorative banner at the top. Vertical border text along the left margin states the redemption condition, while the lower margin carries a scroll ribbon inscribed with a German verse and a further line identifying the issuing agents Cafetier Waller and Buchhändler Schlösser. |
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| Obverse lettering | Osterode a. H. Wie die Rose im Moose Dieser Schein wird eingelöst Osterode a. H. bis 1. Januar 1922. bei Cafetier Waller u. Buchhändler Schlösser in DRUCK: G. H. LANGE, BRAUNSCHWEIG 10 |
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Osterode am Harz was one of hundreds of German municipalities that resorted to printing their own Kleingeld substitutes during the acute coin shortage of 1916–1917, when copper and nickel were being stripped from circulation for war production. This note was printed locally enough — G. H. Lange operated out of Braunschweig, roughly 80 kilometers north — which kept turnaround times short as demand for small change spiked unpredictably.
The DeNG reference places this within the first series of Osterode issues, a detail worth noting because later municipal emissions from the same city became increasingly elaborate as Notgeld shifted from practical necessity to collector-driven production after 1920.