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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Regensburg (City of Regensburg) |
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| Size | 47 × 37 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark letterpress-printed note on cream paper with a dense guilloche border enclosing the entire face. The large numeral '1' occupies the central field in bold Gothic style, surrounded by intricate foliate scroll ornaments. The denomination inscription 'Gutschein' appears along the upper arc and 'Pfennig' along the lower arc, both rendered in elaborate blackletter script. |
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| Reverse description | Dense letterpress design on cream paper enclosed within a fine guilloche frame. At centre, an oval vignette carries the arms of Regensburg — crossed keys on a divided shield — set against a hatched ground. The issuing authority inscription curves along the upper margin in blackletter script, with the denomination repeated along the lower margin; the printer's imprint 'Heinrich Schiele, Graph. Kunstanstalt Regensburg' appears in small type at the foot. |
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Regensburg's wartime small-change shortage was acute enough that the city resorted to issuing 1 Pfennig paper notes — a denomination so low it had barely existed in coin form before the war made metal scarce. The Tieste reference places this in the Va series, indicating a later wave of Kleingeldersatz issues rather than the earliest emergency printings. Heinrich Schiele was a local commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly the point: by this stage municipalities were commissioning whoever was available.
One-Pfennig Notgeld are among the more unusual survivors of the German emergency money period simply because most were discarded as worthless the moment the shortage passed.