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10 Pfennig

Issuer Stadtgemeinde Pasing (City of Pasing, Bavaria)
Year 1921
Type Local banknote
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Obverse description Printed in blue and black on a pale grey guilloche underprint, the obverse is enclosed within a blue rectangular border and carries the bold Gothic-script heading 'NOTGELD DER STADT PASING' at the top, beneath which a Fraktur-script validity clause reads 'Giltig für den Verkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde Pasing bis zum 15. September 1921 / DER STADTRAT', accompanied by a manuscript facsimile signature and the title 'rechtsk. 1. Bürgermeister'. The lower register centres the denomination numeral '10' within a pointed oval vignette set against a fine crosshatch ground, flanked by foliate scrollwork with 'PFENNIG' lettered to each side.
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Reverse description The reverse, printed in blue and black, bears a broad blue band across the top with 'NOTGELD DER STADT PASING' in white capitals. The central vignette presents the arms of Pasing — a Gothic vesica-shaped escutcheon charged with a heraldic device in blue on white — set within an elaborate ornamental frame of interlaced geometric and foliate motifs; vertical columns of stacked black diamond lozenges lettered '10 Pfg' in white flank the central panel on either side, while the bottom margin carries a repeated denomination line '10 PFG' interspersed with floral sprigs.
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Pasing was an independent Bavarian municipality until its forced incorporation into Munich in 1938, and this 1921 Notgeld issue reflects that civic autonomy at a moment of acute monetary stress. The early Weimar inflation had so drained small-denomination coinage from circulation that thousands of German towns and cities printed their own emergency pfennig notes — Pasing among them. Meindl-Druck was a local press, which was typical for these hyper-local issues: the municipality printed what it needed, where it could.

The 89 × 63 mm format places it among the smaller Kleingeldscheine of the period, practical for everyday retail transactions when Reichsbank coinage had effectively vanished from tills.

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