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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Osterfeld in Westfalen (City of Osterfeld in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 105 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark border with green and red Art Deco geometric diamond vignettes on the left and right lateral panels, enclosing a central text panel with fine guilloche underprint. The central panel bears the handwritten authorization text in Gothic Kurrent script, with the denomination numeral '50' in large white figures on both sides within the border. A circular red official town seal of Osterfeld i/W. bearing an eagle appears in the lower right of the text panel, above a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. The date '15. Dez. 1921' and place 'Osterfeld / IN WESTF.' are inscribed within the text block. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT · OSTERFELD I/W. PFENNIG 50 DIE · SAGE · VON · BURG · VONDERN · GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, DRUCK- UND VERLAGSHAUS, HANNOVER. |
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Osterfeld was a small industrial town in the Ruhr — coal mines, ironworks, a working population with no patience for a currency shortage. This note is Notgeld in the strictest sense: issued because small-denomination Reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by 1921, hoarded or melted, and municipalities were left to paper over the gap themselves. Jänecke in Hannover handled an enormous volume of such commissions across this period, which kept quality consistent even for minor issuers.
Josef Dominicus of Paderborn designed the series — a regional commercial artist rather than a specialist printmaker, which was typical of how these contracts were placed.