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10 Pfennig Waller, Schlösser
| Issuer | Stadt Osterode am Harz (City of Osterode am Harz) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a tall ruined castle keep — the Burgfried — rendered in warm ochre and brown tones against a pale blue and yellow sky, occupying nearly the full height of the note. The denomination '10 Pfennig' is inscribed in black Gothic letterpress at the upper left. A salmon-pink border band at the top carries a Low German verse in Gothic script, with a second verse band along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | De · Burgfried · immer · feste · steiht 10 Pfennig In · guter · un · in · schlechter · Teid |
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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.