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1 Pfennig black ink
| Issuer | Stadt Passau (City of Passau) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Small-format notgeld note printed in black ink on plain paper. The obverse displays a large stylized 'Pf' monogram as the central vignette, rendered in a bold Gothic typeface against a stippled background. Text inscriptions appear along the upper and lower margins identifying the issuing municipality and denomination. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse layout, carrying a similarly bold Gothic 'Pf' monogram as the central design element, printed in black ink over a stippled ground. Marginal inscriptions in small letterpress type run along the upper and lower borders, consistent with the wartime notgeld printing style. |
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Passau's 1 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany in 1918 as small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded by the public and consumed by wartime metal demands. The Stadt Passau issues were printed locally in multiple ink variants, and the "c" suffix on this Grabowski reference distinguishes it specifically by ink color within the same basic type. Black ink printings of this particular denomination are among the more straightforward variants to authenticate, as ink bleeding on thin wartime paper stock is a known characteristic across the Passau 1 Pfennig series.