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70 Pfennig Osterhorn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Osterhorn, Amtsbezirk Hoernerkirchen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Konrad Hanf, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note bears a colour vignette of a period figure in historical costume — a nobleman or town crier in a red cape, yellow breeches, and feathered hat — standing beside a cylindrical drum, flanked by decorative finials on either side. The right half is printed on a solid yellow ground and carries the denomination and issuing authority in bold red letterpress type. A faint guilloche underprint is visible within the yellow field. |
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| Obverse lettering | x 70 PFENNIG NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE OSTERHORN AMTSBEZIRK HOERNERKIRCHEN |
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Osterhorn is a small village in Holstein, and its 1921 notgeld issue reflects the acute small-change shortage that plagued German municipalities in the inflationary period following the First World War. The Amtsbezirk Hörnerkirchen grouping of parishes had neither the banking infrastructure nor the population to command a sophisticated printing contract — yet this 70 Pfennig denomination was produced by Konrad Hanf in Hamburg, a printer with a documented regional notgeld practice during exactly this period.
The 70 Pfennig face value is itself telling: an odd denomination chosen specifically to fill gaps left by coin scarcity at the 50 and 1 Mark levels, not for any accounting logic.