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1 Pfennig Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal
| Issuer | Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal |
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| Year | 1917-1919 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in black on an orange-brown wavy-line guilloche underprint, enclosed within a decorative letterpress border with ornamental corner rosettes. The issuer's name "Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal." appears at the top in Gothic blackletter type, followed by the denomination text "Gutschein über einen Pfennig." in large blackletter script at centre; a redemption clause states "Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bis zum 31. Dezember 1917." A manuscript signature of the Klostergutsverwaltung administrator appears below, with a diagonal overprint reading "Notausgabe." and manuscript date inscriptions indicating issue and expiry periods. The printer's imprint "J. P. Himmer, Augsburg." and the legend "Gesetzlich geschützt." are printed in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain unprinted paper, left blank by the issuer, with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Ettal Abbey's farming and estate administration — the Klostergutsverwaltung — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward, when hoarding and metal requisitioning stripped copper and nickel coinage from daily commerce almost entirely. Religious institutions with working estates were among the more unusual Notgeld issuers, needing fractional currency for wages and local transactions with lay workers and suppliers. J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a regional commercial printer that handled a significant volume of Bavarian Notgeld work during this period, not a specialist security printer.