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2 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Passau (City of Passau) |
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| Size | 20 × 20 mm |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in matching dark blue letterpress ink, replicating the obverse layout with the bold '2 Pf.' denomination at centre against a uniform guilloche hatched underprint. The place name 'Passau' appears in the lower margin, with a brief inscription along the upper edge. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Passau 2 Pf. Passau |
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Passau issued small-denomination Notgeld during the First World War emergency, when coin shortages created a vacuum that municipalities across Germany rushed to fill with their own paper substitutes. The City of Passau's 2 Pfennig notes rank among the smallest format emergency currency produced by any German issuing authority during this period — the square cut was a practical response to paper rationing, not a design choice.
At this denomination, the notes were almost certainly used for local retail transactions, primarily to make change, and most were discarded rather than redeemed once the shortage eased.