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2 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Pasing (City of Pasing) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Small-format notgeld note printed in blue and ochre-brown on grey-blue paper. The upper portion carries a symmetrical curvilinear ornamental frame in light blue against the ochre-brown ground, at the centre of which the large numeral "2" is printed in black. A banner-style panel in light blue at the lower portion bears the two-line issuer inscription in bold black letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in uniform grey-blue paper, showing the natural texture and fibrous grain of the stock with no design elements, text, or ornamentation. |
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Pasing was an independent municipality west of Munich until its forced incorporation into the city in 1938. This 2 Pfennig note belongs to the wave of small-denomination Notgeld — emergency money — that flooded Germany and Austria between roughly 1914 and 1923, when coin shortages made even the most trivial fractions of a Mark impossible to transact without improvised local substitutes.
At 2 Pfennig, this is among the lowest denominations issued by any German municipality. Most Notgeld collectors treat anything below 5 Pfennig as a genuine utility piece rather than a speculative collector issue, meaning it was actually intended for use.