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10 Pfennig Bischofsgrün, Konsum-Verein
| Issuer | Konsum-Verein für Bischofsgrün und Umgebung e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green notgeld on plain paper stock, the face enclosed within a double border of alternating oval and dash ornaments over a fine geometric square-pattern underprint. The issuer's name 'Konsum-Verein für Bischofsgrün und Umg.' and legal form 'e. G. m. b. H.' appear in bold letterpress at the top centre, followed by the place name 'Bischofsgrün.' The denomination numeral '10' is repeated at left and right, with the text 'Gutschein über zehn Pfennige.' centred in the main field, and the authority line 'Der Vorstand.' below. The printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg.' and the legend 'Gesetzlich geschützt.' appear in small type at the lower margin outside the inner border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is a mirror impression of the obverse design, printed through the thin paper stock, resulting in a laterally reversed show-through of the full obverse letterpress text and geometric underprint. No independent reverse design is present; the surface retains the same olive-green paper colour with the faint reversed text of the issuer name, denomination, and printer's imprint visible. |
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Bischofsgrün is a small market village in Upper Franconia, and in 1917 its consumer cooperative was among thousands of German municipal and commercial bodies forced into emergency currency production as the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped circulation of low-denomination coin. The Konsum-Verein für Bischofsgrün und Umgebung issued this note as Notgeld redeemable against purchases — a form of captive scrip as much as emergency money, binding holders to the cooperative's own stores.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg handled a substantial volume of Bavarian Notgeld printing during 1916–1918, and the workmanship on cooperative issues of this type tends toward the functional rather than the decorative collecting pieces that came later in the 1920s inflation series.