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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Stammbach (Market Town of Stammbach) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in black on grey paper with a fine guilloche-patterned underprint in brown-orange. The issuer name 'Marktgemeinde Stammbach' appears at the top, with denomination numerals '10' flanking the central text 'Gutschein über zehn Pfennige' in bold letterpress. A large red-orange '10' overprint is superimposed at the centre, with the issue date 'Stammbach, 15. Mai 1917' below; the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg' and the legal notice 'Gesetzlich geschützt.' appear along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted grey paper reverse with only a faint ghost impression of the obverse design showing through the thin stock, leaving the surface otherwise entirely blank. |
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Stammbach is a small market town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and this 10 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that gripped Germany from 1916 onward — metal coinage had been almost entirely absorbed by the war economy, and hundreds of municipalities were forced to issue their own emergency fractional currency. The Bavarian response to this shortage was notably decentralized, with individual Gemeinden rather than regional authorities taking responsibility.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg, a well-established commercial printer founded in 1842, handled a significant volume of Bavarian Notgeld commissions during this period. Their output was competent but strictly utilitarian — local government work, not prestige printing.