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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirk Vilsbiburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Light green note with perforated edges in the style of a postage stamp. The upper panel bears the district name in bold black letterpress within a rectangular border. The central vignette consists of a large numeral '1' set within a framed compartment, flanked on either side by the denomination abbreviation 'Pfg.' in bold type. The lower panel carries the validity inscription in two lines. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light green reverse, unprinted, with a uniform smooth surface and perforated edges consistent with the stamp-format construction of the note. A faint ghost impression of the obverse design is visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Vilsbiburg is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address a severe shortage of small coins that had persisted since the war. A 1 Pfennig denomination is among the lowest face values recorded in the German Notgeld series, which says something about just how completely fractional coinage had disappeared from everyday commerce.
At 33 × 26 mm, this is a genuinely tiny piece of paper to have functioned as money.