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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Osterwieck (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Reverse description | Two half-timbered buildings on Voigteplatz and Hagenstrasse flank a central denomination cartouche; side panels list local leather industry firms; lower banner carries a Low German verse. |
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| Signature(s) | Haasch and Werner |
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Osterwieck's 1922 notgeld is among the more unusual pieces of the leather notgeld phenomenon that briefly swept small German municipalities during the hyperinflation crisis. While paper notgeld was ubiquitous, a handful of towns — mostly in the Harz region — issued pieces on tanned leather, partly as a deliberate collector's novelty to generate premium revenue for municipal coffers rather than from any genuine material necessity.
Ernst Zickfeld was a local Osterwieck printer, and the leather substrate would have been sourced and prepared separately before printing. Designer G.M. Hödel's involvement suggests this was treated as a commission piece, not a rushed emergency issue.