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10 Pfennig Rabattvereinigung
| Issuer | Rabattvereinigung Altusried |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Buff card stock printed in black letterpress, enclosed within a single-line rectangular border with rounded corners and small scroll ornaments at each corner. A two-line validity restriction in Fraktur reads 'Nur giltig in der Rabattvereinigung / der Gemeinde Altusried.' at the top. The centre of the note carries a decorative curvilinear vignette to the left, beside a framed serial number panel containing the series designation 'II.' and a four-digit number printed on horizontal ruled lines. A cautionary legend 'Ungiltig, wenn Nummer nicht vollständig.' appears across the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Nur giltig in der Rabattvereinigung der Gemeinde Altusried. II. Ungiltig, wenn Nummer nicht vollständig. |
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Rabattvereinigung — literally "discount association" — were cooperative retail schemes common in rural Swabia and Bavaria during the late Weimar and early Nazi periods. Member merchants issued small-denomination paper coupons redeemable for goods or credit at participating shops, a private workaround to the chronic small-change shortages that plagued provincial Germany through the 1920s and into the 1930s. Altusried, a modest market town in the Oberallgäu, was precisely the kind of community where such schemes took root.
These coupons occupied a legal grey zone — not Notgeld in the strict emergency sense, but functionally identical in local use.