Catalog
1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Pasing (City of Pasing) |
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| Value | 1/2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Small-format Notgeld note printed in violet, centred on a circular guilloche medallion bearing the denomination numeral '1/2', enclosed within an eye-shaped underprint of interlocking geometric patterns. Two curved ribbon banderoles arch above and below the medallion, carrying the inscriptions 'NOTGELD' and 'STADT PASING' in dark letterpress. The four corners each bear the currency abbreviation 'MK' in bold letters reserved against the violet ground. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse in plain cream-beige paper stock, entirely unadorned with no text, vignette, or overprint, consistent with the utilitarian production standards of German municipal Notgeld emergency currency issues. |
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Pasing was an independent municipality west of Munich until its forced incorporation into the city in 1938. This note belongs to the Notgeld wave of 1914–1923, when hundreds of German towns and cities issued their own emergency fractional currency to address the chronic small-change shortage that conventional banking infrastructure could not resolve.
At 36 × 28 mm, this is among the smallest formats in the entire Notgeld corpus — physically closer to a postage stamp than to a banknote, which creates predictable condition problems: folding damage along short edges and ink transfer from adjacent storage materials are the two most common issues encountered in surviving examples.