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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Osterfeld in Westfalen (City of Osterfeld in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Jänecke, Druck- und Verlagshaus, Hannover, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT · OSTERFELD I/W. PFENNIG 100 JOSEF · DOMINICUS · PADERBORN Die Stadtsparkasse zahle aus unserem Guthaben an Überbringer gegen diese Platzanweisung 100 Pfennig Gültig bis 1 Monat nach öffentlichem Aufruf. OSTERFELD IN WESTF. den 15. Dez. 1921 Der Bürgermeister: DIE · SAGE · VON · BURG · VONDERN · |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same black, green, and red tricolor scheme, with identical geometric border panels repeating the denomination '100' and 'PFENNIG' at each corner. The central vignette, executed in an Expressionist woodcut style, shows a robed or cloaked figure carrying a large wooden cross through a snow-covered winter landscape with half-timbered buildings visible in the background, illustrating the local legend of Burg Vondern. The printer's imprint appears in small type at the lower right margin below the border. |
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Osterfeld was a small industrial town in the Ruhr — coal mining, heavy industry, perpetual cash shortages. The 1921 Notgeld series was a municipal necessity, not a collectors' piece, though the collector market for decorated Notgeld was already distorting production decisions by that point. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover were a serious commercial printer with a long publishing history, not a specialist currency house, which is typical of how German municipalities sourced emergency coinage during the postwar metal shortage.
Josef Dominicus of Paderborn designed the series — a regional illustrator working outside the Berlin-Leipzig axis that dominated higher-profile Notgeld commissions.