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100 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Osterfeld in Westfalen |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | OSTERFELD STADT I. WESTF. 100 Pfg PLATZANWEISUNG AN ÜBERBRINGER GÜLTIG BIS 1 MONAT NACH ÖFFENTL. AUFKÜNDIGUNG OSTERFELD D. 15. DEZ. 1921 DER BÜRGERMEISTER STADTSPARKASSE REIHE D 100 PFENNIG |
| Reverse description | Printed in black with red accent highlights on the denomination numerals, the reverse carries an Expressionist woodcut-style vignette of two reclining figures — one seated and leaning forward, the other recumbent — set against a background evoking a window and candlelit interior. The large denomination '100 Pfg.' dominates the upper half in bold outlined lettering with red shadow; a four-line satirical verse in German occupies a ruled text panel along the lower third, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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Osterfeld in Westfalen was a small industrial town in the Ruhr, heavily dependent on coal mining and steelworks, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921 it was printing its own fractional currency to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank notes. The inflationary pressure driving this Notgeld wave had been building since the war; by mid-1921 it had become a flood.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover handled a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld commissions during this period, which makes attributing artistic or printing distinctions to any single issue difficult.