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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Berneck im Fichtelgebirge |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued in teal-green letterpress on white paper, with a dense geometric wave-pattern underprint covering the entire face. The denomination numeral "10" appears in each of the four corners within plain rectangular frames. A central vignette in a white reserve field shows the city arms of Berneck — a mounted knight — set beneath the issuer legend "Stadt Berneck im Fichtelgebirge." Below, large bold text reads "Gutschein über zehn Pfennige," followed by the place-date "Berneck, im Januar 1917," the issuing authority "Stadtmagistrat:" and a manuscript signature above the title "Bürgermeister." The printer's imprint "J. P. Himmer, Augsburg" and the legal notice "Gesetzlich geschützt" appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in teal-green with the same dense geometric wave-pattern underprint as the obverse. A central rectangular white reserve holds the official arms of Berneck im Fichtelgebirge — a rearing armoured knight above a quartered shield — serving as the Amtssiegel (official municipal seal) referenced on the face. The issuer name "Stadt Berneck im Fichtelgebirge" is repeated in a plain band along both the upper and lower margins. |
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Berneck im Fichtelgebirge is a small spa town in northern Bavaria, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, its Stadtmagistrat was forced into the notgeld business by a wartime coin shortage so severe that even the smallest transactions became difficult. The German Reichsbank had suspended subsidiary coinage circulation as metal was redirected to the war effort, leaving local authorities scrambling for substitutes.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a reliable Bavarian commercial printer with a long track record of municipal work, which is why so many small southern German notgeld issues of this period share a similar typographic character — functional, unambitious, stamped with whatever official seal the issuing body could produce on short notice.