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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Nesselwang (Market Town of Nesselwang) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the polychrome heraldic shield of Nesselwang rendered in red and green on a gold cartouche with scrollwork, framed by foliage sprays. The four corners each carry a beaded red circular medallion enclosing the green numeral '10'. A validity clause in Gothic blackletter script occupies the upper field, with the place name 'Nesselwang' and date 'Novemb. 1918' flanking the coat of arms, accompanied by a manuscript Bürgermeister signature and a serial number at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Nesselwang Novemb. 1918 der Bürgermeister |
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Nesselwang is a small Bavarian market town in the Allgäu Alps, and this note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Germany in 1918 as metal coinage disappeared into hoarding and war production. Municipalities across the Reich — including hundreds of tiny communities with no banking infrastructure to speak of — were legally permitted to issue their own Notgeld to keep local commerce moving. Nesselwang was one of the smallest to do so.
J. Adolf Schwarz of nearby Lindenberg printed many such local issues in the region. The designer credit to Heinz Schipstl is unusually specific documentation for a note of this type and scale.