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| Issuer | Passau, City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1Pf |
| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse layout, printed in brown ink with a large Gothic blackletter monogram '1Pf' centrally positioned within the note field. The letterpress impression appears slightly lighter than the obverse, with the same thin ruled border surrounding the design. |
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Passau's 1918 Kleingeldersatz issues belong to the vast wave of German municipal emergency money — Notgeld — produced as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation during the war. At 21 × 21 mm, this is among the smallest paper notes issued by any German municipality, essentially a postage-stamp-sized slip of printed paper passing as currency.
The specific DeNG catalog suffix "d" indicates a color variant within the P7.7 series — brown ink distinguishing it from otherwise identical printings in the same sequence. These variant distinctions matter mainly to completionists; the notes themselves were interchangeable in daily use.