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20 Reichspfennig Scheidegg im Allgäu
| Issuer | Gemeinde Scheidegg i. Allgäu |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 20 Reichspfennig |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Gutschein M über mit Worten: Zwanzig Reichspfennig Behelfszahlungsmittel innerhalb der Gemeinde Scheidegg i. Allg. Einlösung Spar- u. Darlehenskasse Scheidegg B/1218 (Translation: 20 Voucher M / over / in words: Twenty Reichspfennig / Temporary means of payment within the municipality of Scheidegg i. Allg. / Redemption at Scheidegg Savings and Loan Bank / B/1218) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same light blue-grey paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Gemeinde-issued Notgeld from the final weeks of the Third Reich. Scheidegg, a small market town in the Bavarian Alps near the Austrian border, was among hundreds of municipalities forced to print their own emergency fractional currency as the Reichsbank's distribution network collapsed in early 1945. Allied advances had severed supply lines, and coin shortages — already severe after years of metal requisitions for the war effort — became acute.
Notes of this type rarely survived in quantity; most were redeemed quickly once occupation currency took hold, and many were simply discarded.