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10 Reichspfennig Scheidegg im Allgäu
| Issuer | Gemeinde Scheidegg im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| In circulation to | 1948 |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Gutschein A über mit Worten: Zehn Reichspfennig Behelfszahlungsmittel innerhalb der Gemeinde Scheidegg i. Allg. Einlösung Spar- u. Darlehenskasse Scheidegg (Translation: 10 Voucher A / worth in words: Ten Reichspfennig / Temporary means of payment within the municipality of Scheidegg in Allgäu / Redeemable at Scheidegg Savings and Loan Bank) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is plain, unprinted salmon-pink paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, showing only the natural texture of the coarse fibrous stock. |
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Scheidegg is a small market town in the Bavarian part of the Allgäu, and this 10 Reichspfennig piece belongs to the chaotic final weeks of the Third Reich, when the collapse of the Reichsbank's distribution network forced municipalities across southern Germany and Austria to issue their own emergency fractional currency. These Gemeinde-level Notgeld issues of early 1945 are distinct from the more studied WWI and early Weimar issues — they were improvised responses to a genuine coin shortage caused by civilian hoarding and the breakdown of supply chains under Allied bombing.
Paper at this denomination was unusual even under emergency conditions; most comparable municipal issues used card or printed voucher stock.