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10 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Marktmagistrat Ebersberg (Market Municipality of Ebersberg, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed on thin paper stock with an orange-tan ground, the note is framed by a black outer border of interlocking geometric and dotted ornaments enclosing an inner rectangular frame with leaf-corner devices, the central field filled by a light orange guilloche underprint. The issuer name 'Marktmagistrat Ebersberg.' is set in bold blackletter type across the upper portion, flanked at left and right by the denomination numeral '10', with the central legend 'Gutschrift über zehn Pfennige.' in Gothic script and a large orange '10' overprinted at centre. The issue date 'Ebersberg, 15. Dezember 1916.' is placed at the foot of the inner frame, with the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg.' below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktmagistrat Ebersberg. 10 Gutschrift über zehn Pfennige. 10 Ebersberg, 15. Dezember 1916. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. |
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Ebersberg's 1916 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency issued across Bavaria after the Reichsbank began restricting small coin as hoarding gutted circulation in the opening years of the war. Towns of Ebersberg's scale — a market municipality of a few thousand residents southeast of Munich — had no realistic alternative but to commission local or regional commercial printers for stopgap fractional notes.
Himmer in Augsburg was a natural choice, handling notgeld contracts for numerous Bavarian municipalities during this period. The 1916 dating places this firmly in the earliest phase of German notgeld production, before the flood of decorative issues that characterized 1921–22.