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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Osterfeld in Westfalen (City of Osterfeld in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Jänecke, Druck- und Verlagshaus, Hannover, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Dark border with geometric Art Nouveau vignettes — diamond and triangular latticework panels in green and red — flanking a central text panel on a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large white figures at left and right within the dark side panels, with 'PFENNIG' at top and bottom corners. The central panel carries the payment text in Gothic blackletter script, dated 'den 15. Dez. 1921', with the issuing authority 'OSTERFELD IN WESTF.' and the title 'Der Bürgermeister' above a manuscript signature and a circular red official city seal bearing the Osterfeld eagle. The designer credit 'JOSEF DOMINICUS PADERBORN' is inscribed across the top of the central panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT · OSTERFELD I/W. PFENNIG 75 DIE · SAGE · VON · BURG · VONDERN · GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, DRUCK- UND VERLAGSHAUS, HANNOVER. |
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Osterfeld was a small industrial town in the northern Ruhr, absorbed into Oberhausen in 1929 — which makes this Notgeld a document of a municipality that no longer exists. The 75 Pfennig denomination was common in the 1921 Westphalian series, issued to plug the chronic small-change shortage that afflicted German commerce throughout the early Weimar inflation years.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover handled a large volume of municipal Notgeld commissions during this period, and the quality of their lithographic work is consistently above average for the genre. The design credit to Josef Dominicus of Paderborn is a relatively traceable attribution — Dominicus was active as a commercial artist in Westphalia during this period, though he worked across multiple issuing authorities.