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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Osterhofen (City Council of Osterhofen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtrat Osterhofen. 25 Gutschein über Pfennig. Osterhofen, den 27. Januar 1917 MAGISTRAT DER K.B. STADT OSTERHOFEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels in a hand-drawn illustrative style. The left panel carries the denomination '25' above the inscription 'PFENIG / NOTGELD / STADT / OSTER- / HOFEN / NIEDER / BAYERN' in stacked block lettering, with a decorative cartouche containing the numeral '25' at the lower left. The wide central panel presents a vignette of the Osterhofen townscape with a prominent church tower rising against a clouded sky, and a coiled serpent or dragon motif at the base inscribed 'Osterhofen Altst[adt]'. The right panel mirrors the left in layout, bearing '25 / PFENIG' above the validity notice 'DIE GILTIGKEIT ERLISCHT 3 MONATE NACH BEKANNTGABE' and a matching decorative cartouche below. |
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Osterhofen is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and its city council issued this Notgeld in 1917 as small-denomination coinage disappeared into wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. The German imperial government's systematic withdrawal of silver and copper from circulation left municipalities scrambling to fill the gap at the retail level — paper Kleingeldscheine like this one were the unglamorous result.
1917 issues tend to predate the more elaborate printed Notgeld that flooded the market from 1918 onward. Earlier municipal pieces were purely functional, produced locally or regionally without artistic pretension.