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30 Pfennig Osterhorn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Osterhorn, Amtsbezirk Hoernerkirchen |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the obverse carries a folk-art vignette of a stylised plant with paired golden seed pods or grain bundles arranged symmetrically on either side of a central stem, a small red bird perched at its base, and a crossmark above; the right half is occupied by a solid yellow-ochre underprint panel bearing the denomination numeral '30' and 'PFENNIG' in bold red letterpress, with a faint decorative scrollwork watermark pattern in the background. The issuing authority inscription is set in spaced red capitals below the denomination. A plain double-rule black border frames the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | x 30 PFENNIG NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE OSTERHORN AMTSBEZIRK HOERNERKIRCHEN |
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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.