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10 Pfennig Rabattvereinigung
| Issuer | Rabattvereinigung Altusried |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Rabattvereinigung Altusried. Gutschein über 10 zehn Pfennige. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1918. CAVER DIE 7, ALTUSRIED |
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| 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.