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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Immenstadt i. A. (City of Immenstadt im Allgäu, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1857-1917 |
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| Reference(s) | L#4.1a |
| Obverse description | Plain typeset Gutschein (emergency note) printed in black on an orange-brown woven-pattern underprint, framed by a decorative letterpress border with spiral corner ornaments. The denomination '10' appears in large numerals flanking the central text 'zehn Pfennige' in bold Gothic script, with the issuer's name 'Stadtgemeinde Immenstadt i. A.' at the top and the date 'Immenstadt, den 1. Februar 1917' below. A manuscript signature of the rechtsk. Bürgermeister (acting mayor) appears above the printed title 'Stadtmagistrat:', with the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg' at the foot of the note. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet handstamp of the Magistrat der Stadt Immenstadt applied to the reverse; the obverse text explicitly states the note is only valid when this Magistratssiegel is present on the back. |
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Immenstadt im Allgäu issued these small-denomination emergency notes as Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the First World War — municipal authorities across Bavaria found themselves printing fractional currency simply to keep local commerce moving when metal coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight.
J. P. Himmer was a well-established Augsburg printing house with a long record of commercial and official work in the region. The official seal served as the sole security feature, which was typical of hastily arranged municipal issues where the credibility of the issuing authority mattered more than sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures at these trivial denominations.