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| Issuer | Stadt Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Currency | Reichsmark (1924-1948) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT LINDENBERG IM ALLGÄU GUT SCHEIN DIESER GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZEHN PFENNIG VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ERFOLGTEM AUFRUF LINDENBERG, DEN 1. SEPTEMBER 1947 DER BÜRGERMEISTER 10 (Translation: CITY OF LINDENBERG IN THE ALLGÄU / VOUCHER / This voucher of TEN PFENNIG loses its validity one month after issuance / Lindenberg, September 1, 1947 / The Mayor / 10) |
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| Reverse lettering | Send it luck! 10 Pf. LINDENBERG BOSNER |
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Issued in 1947, this belongs to the final wave of German municipal emergency money — not the famous Weimar-era Notgeld of the early 1920s, but a postwar necessity driven by the catastrophic currency shortage under Allied occupation. By this point the Reichsmark was functionally worthless for small transactions, and towns like Lindenberg issued scrip on their own authority simply to keep local commerce moving ahead of the 1948 Deutsche Mark reform.
Bosner as designer is otherwise poorly documented in the notgeld literature. The note predates the currency reform by roughly a year, meaning most circulating examples saw hard daily use in that desperate interim period.