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1 Pfennig Pale Green paper; Brown ink
| Issuer | Stadt Passau (City of Passau) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Reverse mirrors the obverse layout, printed in brown ink on pale green paper with perforated borders. A large Gothic 'Pf' denomination monogram occupies the central guilloche field, with the town name 'PASSAU' in letterpress along the lower edge. |
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| Protection description | Row of evenly spaced circular perforations along all four edges, consistent with a stamp-booklet strip format used as an anti-counterfeiting and separation measure. |
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Passau's wartime Kleingeldersatz notes — emergency small-change substitutes issued by the municipality when metal coinage all but vanished from circulation during World War I — were produced on perforated paper strips, with individual notes separated by tearing along the perforation line. The perforation itself doubled as the sole security feature, a practical solution for a denomination so low that sophisticated printing was economically absurd.
The pale green paper stock was likely chosen for denomination differentiation within the series rather than for any anti-counterfeiting purpose.