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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Solnhofen (Municipality of Solnhofen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed on the same red-brown paper without a border frame, carries a block of justified letterpress text in German stating the redemption and expiry conditions of the voucher. A circular official municipality stamp impression is visible in the lower right corner. |
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| Protection description | Circular municipality stamp of Gemeinde Solnhofen applied to the reverse. |
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Solnhofen is a village in Bavaria better known to paleontologists than to numismatists — the local limestone quarries yielded the first *Archaeopteryx* specimen in 1861. By 1917, with metal coinage hoarded or melted for the war effort, even a community this small had to produce its own emergency pfennig notes. This is Notgeld at its most granular: a single municipality filling a coin shortage that Berlin had no immediate capacity to solve.
The J. P. Himmer print shop in Augsburg handled a great deal of Bavarian municipal Notgeld during this period. The official stamp served as the primary authentication device — without it, the note held no local authority.