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50 Pfennig Vorschuß- und Sparverein
| Issuer | Vorschuß- und Sparverein Ostheim |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vignette of the old town of Ostheim, rendered in a simplified illustrative style typical of provincial Notgeld issues of the period. The town view is framed by plain border rules, with the place name and denomination inscribed in letterpress type. The overall design is modest, consistent with the economic constraints of wartime emergency currency production. |
| Reverse lettering | OSTHEIM 50 PFENNIG |
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Ostheim vor der Rhön is a small market town in the former Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, and this note was issued by its local credit cooperative — a Vorschuß- und Sparverein — rather than by any municipal or state authority. These cooperative societies, established across German-speaking territories during the nineteenth century largely on the Schulze-Delitzsch model, occasionally issued emergency small-change notes during the 1918 Kleingeldnot, when coin metal had long since been requisitioned for war production.
Keyßner'sche Hofbuchdruckerei in Meiningen was the natural choice for such work, being the court printer for the duchy and handling routine local job printing throughout the region.