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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Osnabrück (City of Osnabrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central circular vignette contains the Osnabrück city coat of arms — a shield bearing a spoked wheel flanked by two standing bearded male figures — set against a yellow guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '5' appears in large white roundels with serrated borders at left and right. A circular legend surrounds the vignette, with the issuing authority and redemption terms inscribed in Gothic script. The overall design is executed in brown, gold, and blue on a patterned ground of repeating floral rosettes, with a blue-bordered outer frame. The printer's imprint 'Druck: Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover' appears below the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünf Mark Dieser Gutschein wird durch die Stadthaupt-Kasse eingelöst Osnabrück, im Juli 1921 · Der Magistrat Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung Druck: Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover. |
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Osnabrück's 1921 notgeld series was printed by Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover — a firm better known as a lithographic and fine printing house than a banknote printer, which partly explains the decorative ambition of many municipal notgeld issues from this region. By 1921, the Weimar inflation crisis had forced hundreds of German cities and towns to issue their own emergency currency, since Reichsbank notes were either unavailable in small denominations or losing value faster than they could be distributed.
The DeNG reference places this as one of thirteen variants in the Osnabrück 1032 series — a range suggesting the city issued multiple design or date variants across the run.