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10 Reichspfennig Scheidegg im Allgäu
| Issuer | Gemeinde Scheidegg im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink paper Gutschein (voucher) of simple letterpress design, printed in black on a uniformly coloured ground. The denomination numeral '10' appears in a ruled box at upper left, with the series letter 'A' in a matching box at upper right, flanking the central title 'Gutschein' in bold Fraktur script. The lower half carries a serial number block with a horizontal rule underprint at right, alongside the issuing authority text and series reference. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is plain, unprinted salmon-pink paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, showing only the natural texture of the coarse fibrous stock. |
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Scheidegg is a small market town in the Bavarian part of the Allgäu, and this 10 Reichspfennig piece belongs to the chaotic final weeks of the Third Reich, when the collapse of the Reichsbank's distribution network forced municipalities across southern Germany and Austria to issue their own emergency fractional currency. These Gemeinde-level Notgeld issues of early 1945 are distinct from the more studied WWI and early Weimar issues — they were improvised responses to a genuine coin shortage caused by civilian hoarding and the breakdown of supply chains under Allied bombing.
Paper at this denomination was unusual even under emergency conditions; most comparable municipal issues used card or printed voucher stock.