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10 Pfennig Lindenberg im Allgäu
| Issuer | Stadt Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Designer(s) | Bosner |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a bold letterpress style with the inscription 'STADT LINDENBERG IM ALLGÄU' in large Gothic lettering framing a central heraldic vignette of the town church set within a shield, flanked by stylized red scrollwork. Circular cartouches in the upper corners carry the legend 'GUT SCHEIN' in red on a green dotted border, while two further cartouches at the lower corners bear the denomination numeral '10' in red. The lower register contains the redemption text and the date '1. September 1947', accompanied by the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | Send it luck! 10 Pf. LINDENBERG BOSNER |
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Issued in 1947, this belongs to the final wave of German municipal emergency money — not the famous Weimar-era Notgeld of the early 1920s, but a postwar necessity driven by the catastrophic currency shortage under Allied occupation. By this point the Reichsmark was functionally worthless for small transactions, and towns like Lindenberg issued scrip on their own authority simply to keep local commerce moving ahead of the 1948 Deutsche Mark reform.
Bosner as designer is otherwise poorly documented in the notgeld literature. The note predates the currency reform by roughly a year, meaning most circulating examples saw hard daily use in that desperate interim period.