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25 Reichspfennig Scheidegg im Allgäu
| Issuer | Gemeinde Scheidegg i. Allgäu |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 25 Reichspfennig |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured note of simple letterpress design, entirely without vignette or decorative underprint. The numeral '25' appears in a ruled box at upper left, while a stylised interlocked 'G' monogram occupies a corresponding box at upper right; between them, the title 'Gutschein' is set in bold blackletter type above the word 'über' and the written denomination line. The lower half carries two-line text establishing the note as a temporary means of payment within the municipality, redeemable at the Scheidegg Savings and Loan Bank, accompanied by a serial prefix and a handwritten number in a ruled box at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Gutschein über mit Worten: fünfundzwanzig Rpfg. Behelfszahlungsmittel innerhalb der Gemeinde Scheidegg i. Allg. Einlösung Spar- u. Darlehenskasse Scheidegg (Translation: 25 Voucher over in words: twenty-five Reichspfennig. Temporary means of payment within the municipality of Scheidegg i. Allg. Redemption at Scheidegg Savings and Loan Bank) |
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Scheidegg is a small market town in the Bavarian Alps near the Austrian border, and this note belongs to the wave of emergency currency — Notgeld — issued by German municipalities in the final weeks of the war, when the Reichsbank had effectively ceased to function as a supply chain for circulating coin and small denomination paper. By early 1945, locally printed fractional notes were appearing across southern Germany as communities scrambled to keep retail trade moving ahead of the Allied advance.
Late-war municipal Notgeld of this type was rarely printed in large quantities, and much of it was redeemed or simply discarded within months of issue.