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60 Pfennig Osterhorn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Osterhorn, Amtsbezirk Hoernerkirchen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 60 Pfennigs (60 Pfennige) (0.60) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries a hand-coloured letterpress vignette of a stylised figure in 18th-century dress — tricorn hat, yellow coat, breeches and stockings — standing on a grassy mound and holding a cane, with a red heart motif positioned to his left. The right half is set on a solid yellow ground bearing the denomination numeral '60' rendered as two interlocking rings above the large red letterpress legend 'PFENNIG', with the issuing authority text arranged below in four lines of red block capitals. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 31. DECEMBER 1921 DER AMTSAUSSCHUSS J.A. DER AMTSVORSTEHER KONRAD HANF, HAMBURG 8 |
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Osterhorn is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and this 1921 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of German Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — issued by municipalities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses during the currency disruptions that followed the First World War. The Rentenmark was still two years away, and the chronic shortage of low-denomination coin had forced even minor administrative districts to print their own emergency paper. Amtsbezirk Hoernerkirchen, the administrative district overseeing Osterhorn, was no exception.
Konrad Hanf of Hamburg was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security press, which is consistent with the informal, locally-contracted nature of most Notgeld production at this level.