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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Osnabrück (City of Osnabrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Yellow and crimson ground with a central circular vignette bearing the city arms of Osnabrück flanked by heraldic supporters, with a spoked wheel motif positioned above and below the shield. Denomination cartouches in serrated frames reading '2 Mark' are set at the left and right margins, while a curved Gothic-script legend encircles the central vignette. The issuer name 'Stadt Osnabrück' is rendered in bold blackletter across the upper register, with the printer's imprint 'Druck: Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover' running along the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow and crimson foliate ground with a central circular vignette presenting a silhouette view of the Löwenpudel monument — a lion statue atop a tall pedestal — rendered in bold black against a pale grey ground. Large numerals '2' flank the medallion at left and right, each accompanied by the inscription 'Mark', while four decorative ribbon banners bearing Low German verse in blackletter script are arranged around the central image. A scroll caption reading 'Löwenpudel' appears directly beneath the monument, with the phrase 'grauten Steen' inscribed along the lower margin. |
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Osnabrück's 1921 Notgeld issues were part of the broader municipal emergency money wave that swept German cities as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denomination coinage in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. The city commissioned Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover — a firm better known for high-quality commercial printing and lithographic work — rather than a specialist banknote printer, which is exactly what you see in the output: competent but distinctly civilian in character.
The DeNG reference suffix range .1-12/13 indicates this is one of a multi-variant series, with different reverse designs or serial combinations issued across the run. Collectors assembling a complete set of the Osnabrück 2 Mark issues typically find two or three variants considerably harder to source than the rest.