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2 Pfennig Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal
| Issuer | Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 106 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink-buff paper, the obverse is enclosed within a letterpress-printed decorative border of interlocking scrollwork and ornamental corner devices. The issuer's name 'Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal' appears in Gothic (Fraktur) script at the top, above the central denomination legend 'Gutschein über zwei Pfennige' with the numeral '2' repeated at both lateral margins. A redemption clause and a manuscript signature of the issuing authority appear in the lower portion, accompanied by a light typographic underprint repeating the issuer's name; an overprinted diagonal 'Neuausgabe' (new issue) notice with manuscript month corrections 'Juli' over 'April' crosses the face diagonally, and a violet rubber stamp of 'Klosterguts-Verwaltung Ettal' is applied to the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal. Gutschein über zwei Pfennige. Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bis zum 31. Dezember 1917. Die Klostergutsverwaltung: Gesetzlich geschützt. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. Neuausgabe |
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Ettal Abbey's estate administration — the Klostergutsverwaltung — issued this note during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, when wartime metal demands stripped copper and nickel from everyday circulation. Parish communities, farms, and institutional estates across Bavaria turned to paper Notgeld of the smallest denominations to keep local commerce moving. A Benedictine monastery's agricultural holdings issuing 2-Pfennig scrip is among the more unusual institutional sources in the Bavarian Notgeld record.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was the dominant regional printer for such emergency issues, handling dozens of Bavarian municipal and private clients simultaneously during this period.