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50 Pfennigs Cafetier Waller and Buchhändler Schlösser
| Issuer | Stadt Osterode am Harz (City of Osterode am Harz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Osterode a. H. Wie die Rose im Moose Dieser Schein wird eingelöst bei Osterode a. H. bis 1. Januar 1922 Cafetier Waller u. Buchhändler Schlösser in DRUCK: F. R. LANGE, BRAUNSCHWEIG E.Ose |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm ochre, tan, and teal tones and presents a theatrical scene in a historicist folk style: at left stands a woman in traditional dress with a blue bodice and pale skirt, at right a male figure in period costume with a plumed hat and sword. Between them, framed by a timber-and-arch architectural vignette, the large denomination '50 Pfennig' is rendered in bold Gothic numerals, with smaller figures visible through the archway. A banner at the top carries the Low German verse 'Torn Harze het Hans tapper stritten' and a lower scroll reads 'For me fel elitten'. |
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Osterode am Harz was among hundreds of small German municipalities that resorted to Notgeld during the postwar coin shortage, but this particular 50 Pfennig piece is unusual in that the issuing credit is shared between two private commercial establishments — Cafetier Waller and bookseller Schlösser — alongside the city authority. Such hybrid municipal-merchant issues were issued to serve local retail circulation and were redeemable at the named businesses, tying the note's acceptance directly to the commercial reputation of those specific proprietors.
F. R. Lange of Braunschweig was a regional printer active in the Notgeld trade during this period. The designer credit to E. Ose is rare enough to note — most small-town Notgeld carried no named designer at all.