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10 Pfennig Altusried
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altusried |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (0.10 RM) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper note printed in dark grey letterpress. The word "Gutschein" appears in roman type at the top centre, with the denomination "10 Pfg." in large blackletter script occupying the centre field. The issuer name "Altusried" and date "1947" are set in bold blackletter at lower left and lower right respectively, with a handwritten serial number at the lower left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain cream-coloured fibrous paper, free of any text, vignette, or underprint, consistent with the emergency provisional character of this local Gutschein issue. |
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A 1947 Gemeinde note from Altusried — a small market town in the Allgäu — puts this squarely in the immediate postwar Notgeld revival, when Allied occupation authorities permitted German municipalities to issue low-denomination scrip to address the acute coin shortage left by the collapse of the Reichsmark system. The licensing of such local issues varied considerably by occupation zone, and Bavaria fell under American administration, which was generally more permissive about community-level emergency currency than the British or French zones.
Local printing at this scale almost certainly meant a small commercial press, with predictable inconsistencies in registration and ink coverage across the run.