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30 Pfennig Osterhorn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Osterhorn, Amtsbezirk Hoernerkirchen |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | x 30 PFENNIG NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE OSTERHORN AMTSBEZIRK HOERNERKIRCHEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in yellow-ochre and black on a plain paper ground, with a central oval cartouche mounted on a small stepped plinth and surmounted by a ribbon scroll, containing the validity text and two manuscript signatures; flanking the cartouche symmetrically are two tall classical amphora-style urns rendered in outline, each topped with a coloured floral bouquet of red and yellow blooms with green leaves. A double-rule border encloses the full composition. |
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Osterhorn is a small parish in Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued Kleingeldscheine during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward — wartime metal requisitioning had pulled copper and nickel coins out of circulation faster than the authorities anticipated. The Amtsbezirk Hoernerkirchen grouping tells you this was administratively coordinated at the district level, though individual Gemeinden still issued under their own name.
Notgeld from villages this small was often printed in very short runs, and local issues from rural Holstein are underrepresented in most collections precisely because few survived day-to-day use.