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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Donauwörth |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 110 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsnotgeld Donauwörth 10 Pf Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde Donauwörth. Stadtmagistrat Donauwörth rechtsk. Bürgermeister Der Gutscheine verliert die Gültigkeit einen Monats nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig Stotz führt die Stadt im Wappenschild des alten Reiches Doppelaar In Treue nun fürs neue Reich kämpft tapfer ihrer Söhne Schar! HEINZ SCHIESTL |
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Donauwörth's 1918 Notgeld issue belongs to the first major wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded southern Germany as the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime metal shortages and coin hoarding. The Stadtmagistrat — the town's civic magistracy — had legal authority to issue such notes under Bavarian municipal ordinance, though in practice the proliferation of local issuers that year made standardized redemption a bureaucratic nightmare.
Heinz Schiestl, the Würzburg-based graphic artist responsible for the design, was among the more sought-after hands working in Bavarian Notgeld illustration during this period. His involvement elevates this above the purely functional scrip that most small municipalities commissioned.